During the plenary session on Friday, November 10, 2023 at the 2023 RFC Congress in Chicago Cardinal McElroy will give the following keynote address followed by a question-and-answer period and small group dialogue.
Two major missionary imperatives have emerged from the synodal process for religious women and men and their communities. The first is to renew religious communities to more fully incorporate synodality into their identity, culture and mission. The second is to draw from the renewal that religious life has already undertaken since the Second Vatican Council, and use that experience to witness to the realities of communion, participation and outreach in the larger Church. The meetings in Rome will help crystalize this two-fold dynamic which provides such a hope-filled and spiritually rich new chapter in the history of religious life in our time.
