Synod 72

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The Synod 72 was a series of events to implement the decisions of the Second Vatican Council in the Swiss local Church. The synod lasted from 1972 to 1975.

preparation

On March 10, 1969, the Swiss Bishops' Conference decided to convene a synod to implement the resolutions of the Second Vatican Council in the local church seven years after the end of the council. The bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland wanted to continue the Council's departure. The preparatory interdiocesan technical commission built on the results of a nationwide survey with high participation. The participating priests, religious and lay people all had the same right to speak and vote thanks to a dispensation given by the Vatican on September 22, 1969.

execution

Synod 72 was opened on September 23, 1972 with high expectations simultaneously in all six Swiss dioceses and in the territorial abbey of St-Maurice . The opening ceremony for the Diocese of Chur took place in Zurich-Wiedikon.

Everywhere the respective bishop spoke "a word coordinated with the synod", reported the Kipa press agency at the time:

“It is wrong to split it up into progressives and conservatives, because we have to be both together. The only standard of our actions is the gospel. "

- Joseph Hasler , Bishop of St. Gallen : opening sermon

"[The Synod is] nothing else than the realization of the Second Vatican Council."

- Giuseppe Martinoli, Bishop of Lugano

A three-year intensive work began in all dioceses, in which common future perspectives were sought. The motto was "look back and think ahead".

content

The Synodal passed resolutions in twelve subject areas from the areas of faith and the proclamation of faith, worship and pastoral care, the relationship to the Church as a whole, to the state, society and the economy as well as questions of ecumenism, education and social justice. To this end, they met in up to ten sessions lasting several days.

The majority of the petitions of the Swiss bishops based on resolutions of the Synod 72 rejected Rome. Including the request for the establishment of a nationwide pastoral council as an interdiocesan advisory body for the bishops' conference. The Swiss Synod Prayer, however, was included in the Roman Missal .

literature

  • The Synod on the subject ... A paperback series with the results of the Swiss Synod 72. Published by the Swiss Bishops' Conference. 7 volumes. Benziger, Zurich et al. 1975–1977.
  • Georges Bavaud : L'expérience du Synode 72. In: Urs Altermatt (ed.): Swiss Catholicism in Transition 1945–1990 (= religion, politics, society in Switzerland. Vol. 7). Universitäts-Verlag, Freiburg (Switzerland) 1993, ISBN 3-7278-0826-8 , pp. 307-323.
  • Franz Xaver Bishop , Cornel Dora: local church on the way. The diocese of St. Gallen 1847–1997. Festschrift for the hundred and fiftieth year of its existence. With a contribution by Fabrizio Brentini. Verlag am Klosterhof, St. Gallen 1997, ISBN 3-906616-43-6 , pp. 209-217.

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