At 11.30 this morning, a press conference was livestreamed from the Holy See Press Office, to present the Preparatory Document and the Vademecum for the Synod on Synodality, two instruments prepared by the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops to inspire the first phase of the synodal itinerary ahead of the celebration of the 16^th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the theme: “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission”.

The speakers were His Eminence Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary general of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops; Bishop Luis Marín de San Martín, O.S.A., under-secretary of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops; the Reverend Sr. Nathalie Becquart, Xavière, under-secretary of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops; Professor Myriam Wijlens, ordinary professor of canon law at the University of Erfurt, Germany, consultor of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops; and the Reverend Don Dario Vitali, ordinary professor in the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Gregorian University, consultor of the General Secretariat of