The four-year journey of discernment for the Fifth Plenary Council is progressing, with Council Members invited to reflect on proposals emerging from the first assembly held in October.

Towards the Second Assembly: A Working Document for Members offers a focus for Members’ continuing prayer and reflection. It includes proposals drafted as part of the process of preparing resolutions for the Council’s second assembly in July.

The Members will spend much of this month in personal and shared reflection on the document, prepared in four sections by expert writing groups.

Members will then provide their reflections to the Council’s drafting committee, which will work with other Council committees and advisors to revise, refine and consolidate the proposals, in anticipation of their publication several weeks before the second assembly.

Towards the Second Assembly draws primarily on information from the first assembly’s discernment, discussion and contributions, published in December 2021. For more information click here.