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The Church’s exercise of synodality, offered by the International Theological Commission (ITC) on Synodality in the Life and Mission of the Church, may be summed up as the exercise by which the Church realizes itself as it carries out the evangelizing mission that defines it. Following the Lord Jesus Christ and attentively listening to the Holy Spirit at the service of the coming of God’s kingdom, synodality is thus the Church in act, as mission. This is also one of the determining motifs of Pope Francis’s teaching. It is at the center of the programmatic manifesto of his ministry as the Bishop of Rome at the service of the communion of all the Churches, Evangelii gaudium (November 24, 2013). This is so much the case that he even affirms with discreet, almost prophetic determination, “It is precisely this path of synodality which God expects of the Church of the third millennium” . [...]