«Nella Chiesa c’è posto per tutti». Il Sinodo minore come occasione profetica per il futuro di Milano

[Autom. eng. transl.] Launched close to the largest refugee crisis since the post-war period, which has invested Milan with an emergency not only of images disseminated through the media, but of thousands of people in the flesh landed in the city with their burden of suffering and of hope, the minor Synod immediately appeared as an initiative with a prophetic meaning. It is a Church called to be a living witness of the Gospel that the newly-appointed Archbishop Monsignor Delpini wanted to address, choosing to start from the chapter dedicated to the Pastoral of Foreign Affairs the challenging path of rewriting the 47th Diocesan Synod. A Church to which the Synod reminds how, by practicing acceptance, it happens to host angels without knowing it and, above all, encourages them to become "Church of the Gentiles", realizing the most authentic sense of catholicity. Finally, a Church that, as we will illustrate in these pages, is a reflection of a city that has known extraordinary changes in the years that separate us from the last Synod: a Church and a city in many ways in search of identity, whose very identity the Christian roots, preserved by the Ambrosian rite - a sort of "eastern echo in the West" - can offer interpretative and communicative codes to reposition themselves in the global society and in the universal Church.