The Relatio ante disceptationem of the Extraordinary Synod has been presented. Several parallels have been detected between today’s society and that of the first community of the Church
On Monday morning, at the First General Congregation of the Extraordinary Synod on the Family, the General Rapporteur, Cardinal Peter Erdö, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, presented the Relatio ante disceptationem, which in its conclusions summarized the challenges that the Synod will deal with along the way. In fact, "the challenge for this synod is to try to bring back to today’s world, which in some way resembles that of the early days of the Church, the attractiveness of the Christian message about marriage and the family, highlighting the joy which they give, but, at the same time, respond, in a true and charitable way (cf. Eph 4:15), to the many problems which have a special impact on the family today."