AIF’s contribution to the Roman Catholic Synodal Process was a collation of the comments that had been shared during several conversations involving members of the Association. A copy of the final, short paper can be read   here. 

As well as sending a copy to the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, copies were also sent direct to the Office of the Synod and to the Pontifical Dicastery for the Promotion of Christian Unity.

Cardinal Koch, Prefect of the Pontifical Dicastery, has written to thank the Association for its “ecumenical contribution to the Synodal process” and drew attention to the comment in the dicastery’s recent document “The Bishop and Christian Unity: An Ecumenical Vademecum” that “pastors cannot be indifferent to the pain of Christian disunity which is experienced in the context of [interchurch families], perhaps more sharply than in any other context”

He added “We note that the Association’s contribution to the Synodal Process illustrates this pain eloquently” and sent his prayers for all members of the association.

This followed on from the zoom call at the end of February, when nearly 30 AIF members took part in one of several smaller “Synodality conversations” to help inform a response from the Association to the Roman Catholic Synodality process. 

The outcomes of those conversations have been collated and used as the basis for a contribution that has now been sent to the Bishops Conference for England and Wales. The full contribution from the Association can be seen here.