“Magnifica humanitas entrusts the Church with a specific responsibility: to face the struggles of history in its own distinctive way, through a synodal approach rooted in the theological virtues and focused on serving the human person,” reads Vatican News’ summary of Cardinal Stephen Brislin’s remarks during the third session of the Extraordinary Consistory on June 27. This may prove to be one of the most revealing reports yet on the ecclesial vision and religion emerging from Rome: a Church that no longer exists first for the glory of God, the proclamation of Jesus Christ, and the salvation of soul, but in service to mankind. The consistory overwhelmingly proved that the anthropocentric orientation of the religion of the Second Vatican Council has now reached its most developed expression in synodality and confirmed it is the central organizing principle of Leo’s reign.

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