Synod on Synodality members ordered to observe perpetual secrecy about discussions

VATICAN CITY  — Participants of the Synod on Synodality have been ordered to observe complete secrecy about everything they and others say during all the parts of the synod that are not shown on the Vatican’s YouTube channel.

In regulations issued to journalists on October 4, some 10 hours after Pope Francis officially initiated the synod’s 2023 meeting at a morning Mass, the General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops presented the rules for the event. ---More...