“I am very pleased with the synod’s final document,” Cardinal Robert McElroy told America’s Vatican correspondent on the afternoon of Sunday, Oct. 27. That morning he had concelebrated the concluding Mass of the Synod on Synodality with bishops and priests from around the world in St. Peter’s Basilica, presided over by Pope Francis.
Cardinal McElroy shared his reflections on the synod in this wide-ranging interview at the North American College, where he resided during the month-long synod. He viewed the synod as a further step in the reception of the Second Vatican Council and said: “It was our sense that this was what we were about in the light of the council. We were taking the principles of synodality that were historic in the life of the church and applying them to the present moment. So it was axiomatic that this is in furtherance of the council.”
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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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.
