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🗒️ Press conference
Presentation of the 4th Synodal Meeting 'Fratelli tutti'
📍 Holy See Press Office
At 1:00 p.m., in the Holy See Press Office, the press conference was held to present the 4th Synodal Meeting 'Fratelli tutti', devoted to the social-environmental dialogue between the Global North and the Global South and scheduled in Rome from 10 to 12 September 2026 at the Generalate House of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (La Salle). Speakers included Cardinal Jaime Spengler, Archbishop of Porto Alegre and President of CELAM, Liz Shuler, President of the United States trade union federation AFL-CIO, Msgr. Daniel Flores, Auxiliary Bishop of Brownsville (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops), Cardinal Leonardo Steiner, Archbishop of Manaus and President of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA), as well as Gerardo Martínez (ILO) and Msgr. Reginaldo Andrietta. Cardinal Spengler stressed the urgency of 'uniting the best forces of our societies, North and South,' to tackle the socio-environmental crisis that hits the poor hardest, noting that the synodal process has developed participatory methodologies within the Church's evangelizing outlook. Liz Shuler called for AI to be governed responsibly, pointing to a 'future of hope and justice.' Msgr. Flores emphasized the US Church 'walking together' to give voice to the marginalized, while Cardinal Steiner reaffirmed, drawing on Pope Francis's integral ecology, the link between human dignity and ecological concerns. Msgr. Andrietta called for overcoming a culture of indifference by building bridges between continents grounded in Christian ethics.
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