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News, Commentary, and General Information

News and Commentary

• The Synod presents 55 propositions to the Holy Father (VIS)
• Pope explains history, importance of synod meetings (CNS)
• Synod message says each Catholic should own—and use—Bible (CNS)
• Scripture is essential to church's evangelizing mission, pope says (CNS)
• Using powerful imagery, Synod releases a final message to the Church (CWN)
• Pope identifies 'the Church's principal task' for today as Synod closes (CWN)
• Pope intervenes at Synod, says faith must inform Bible scholarship (CWN)

General Information

• USCCB site on the Synod
  News stories, FAQs, and information on the representatives from the United States
• FAQs from the USCCB

• Synod Information from the Vatican
  "Big-picture" background information on the history and theological basis of the Synod
• Lineamenta
  The document that outlines the subject of the Synod and poses a series of questions to the bishops
• Instrumentum Laboris (Working Document)
  The document on which the bishops' discussions are based

Recommended Reading

• Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum)
• “On the Study of Holy Scripture” (Providentissimus Deus) by Pope Leo XIII
• “On St. Jerome” (Spiritu Paraclitus) by Pope Benedict XV
• “On Promoting Biblical Studies” (Divino Afflante Spiritu) by Pope Pius XII

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