"A sound lifelong learning of God’s Word for all the operators of the mission". This is the request shared by most of the reports of the minor circles of the Episcopal Synod, which their speakers submitted this morning during the eighteenth general congregation. The reports, as stated in today’s synodal bulletin, "are extremely important since their are the clearest and best-developed expression of the thought of the synodal fathers involved in the discussion of the circles and also contain, in embryo, the grounds for the general consensus of the Synod. All the reports, taken together, are somehow an initial summary of the synodal work". The reflections of the Minor Circles divided into 5 language areas: Italian, French, English, Spanish and German have been summarised at a "briefing" in the newsroom of the Holy See. "Biblical renewal in the Catholic Church said mgr. Pierre-Marie Carré, archbishop of Albi, in presenting the report of the French Minor Circle (C) is still recent. We must work to make the "great council’s text" of the Dei Verbum "better known". (continued)
