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Philadelphia meeting, synods will be part of global debate on families

byCNS
17 September 2014 - Updated on 1 April 2021
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Family matters: Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia speaks during a press conference at the Vatican on September 16. Archbishop Chaput announced officially that the next World Meeting of Families will be held in Philadelphia from September 22-27, 2015. Photo: CNS/Tony Gentile, Reuters

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Family matters: Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia speaks during a press conference at the Vatican on September 16. Archbishop Chaput announced officially that the next World Meeting of Families will be held in Philadelphia from September 22-27, 2015.
Photo: CNS/Tony Gentile, Reuters

THE World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in September 2015 will serve as a forum for debating issues on the agenda for the world Synod of Bishops at the Vatican the following month, the two archbishops responsible for planning the Philadelphia event said.

At a September 16 briefing, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia described the world meeting as one of several related events to follow the October 2014 extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family, which will prepare an agenda for the worldwide synod one year later.

Such events, including a January 2015 meeting in Rome with family and pro-life groups, would enable a debate on the synod’s agenda “at the international, global level”, Archbishop Paglia said. “It is important that this text not remain an abstract text reserved to some specialists,” he said.

“In this way, the debate at the ordinary synod will be enriched.”

Pope Francis has said both synods would consider, among other topics, the eligibility of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion, whose predicament he has said exemplified a general need for mercy in the Church today.

“We’re bringing up all the issues that would have appeared in the preparation documents for the synod as part of our reflection,” Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia said regarding plans for the world meeting. “I can’t imagine that any of the presenters won’t pay close attention to what’s happening” in Rome.

Archbishop Chaput said as many as 15,000 people were expected to take part in the meeting, whose program would be kept flexible to allow for topics that emerge from the bishops’ discussions at the Vatican this October.

“But we haven’t approached this as a part of the synod,” Archbishop Chaput said. “It’s a celebration of family life, the Catholic Church’s commitment to support families.”

Pope Francis is widely expected to attend the Philadelphia event, although Archbishop Chaput noted that an official announcement in that regard might not come until well into 2015. If the Pope did attend, he said, a “papal Mass could easily draw more than a million people”.

Among the other family-related events planned for the coming year, Pope Francis will meet on September 28 with thousands of grandparents and other elderly people, including a married couple who have fled Islamic State terrorism in northern Iraq.

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The Pope will give the elderly a large-print edition of the Gospel of Matthew and bless the group, which will also include about 100 priests.

Archbishop Chaput announced the publication of the preparatory teaching document, “Love is Our Mission”, for the world meeting and unveiled a portrait of the Holy Family by a Philadelphia artist. The portrait will hang in the city’s cathedral during the 2015 event.

The extraordinary synod will meet at the Vatican from October 5-19, bringing together the presidents of national bishops’ conferences, the heads of Eastern Catholic churches, Vatican officials and papally appointed delegates, including lay people. The world Synod of Bishops, which will include more bishops – many elected by their peers – will meet at the Vatican from October 4-25, 2015, to continue the discussion on pastoral approaches to the challenges facing families.

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