“The synod’s final document is not a landing strip. It is a launch pad. We’re just beginning. We have no idea how this is going to unfold. This is why this is historic.” That is what Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, told America’s Vatican correspondent on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 27, the day the Synod on Synodality concluded with a solemn Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, presided over by Pope Francis.
In this interview, given at the North American College in Rome where he had studied and where he resided during the synod, the cardinal said, “The documents of the Second Vatican Council are coming to life” with the synod and its final document.
He added: “I spoke to the young college students from America who visited Rome during the synod, and I told them that they are going to look back and see this as one of the most historic moments in their lives, for it has redirected the focus of where the church is going. I believe that it’s a historic moment in the life of the church that is going to be celebrated in history.”
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Gerard O’Connell is America’s Vatican correspondent and author of The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Story of the Conclave That Changed History. He has been covering the Vatican since 1985.
With thanks to America and Gerard O’Connell, where this article originally appeared.
