Fifth Ordinary General Assembly - The Christian Family (26 September-25 October 1980)
Fifth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops
In Session: 26 September - 25 October 1980
Synod Fathers: 216
Topic: “The Christian Family”
A reaffirmation of the Church’s teaching on the indissolubility of marriage and the contents of the encyclical Humanae vitae was central to the work of this Synod. In the course of their work the Synod Fathers produced a written message entitled, A Message to Christian Families in the Modern World, and proposed a Charter for the Rights of the Family which Pope John Paul II subsequently acted upon, on 22 October 1983. From the discussion and proposals of the assembly the Pope issued the Apostolic Exhortation “Familiaris consortio” of 22 November 1981.
President-Delegates
S.Em.R. il Sig. Card. Raúl Francisco Primatesta, Arcivescovo di Córdoba (Argentina)
S.Em.R. il Sig. Card. Lawrence Trevor Picachy, S.I., Arcivescovo di Calcutta (India)
S.Em.R. il Sig. Card. Bernardin Gantin, Presidente della Pontificia Commissione Iustitia et Pax e del Pontificio Consiglio Cor Unum (Vaticano)
General Secretary
S.E.R. Mons. Jozef Tomko, Arcivescovo tit. Doclea (Vaticano)
General Rapporteur
S.Em.R. il Sig. Card. Joseph Ratzinger, Arcivescovo di München und Freising (Germania)
Special Secretary
S.E.R. Mons. Javier Lozano Barragán, Vescovo tit. di Tinisa di Numidia e ausiliare di México (Messico)
Documents of the Fifth Ordinary General Assembly
- Esortazione Apostolica Familiaris consortio (22 novembre 1981)
- DISCORSO DI GIOVANNI PAOLO II A CONCLUSIONE DELLA V ASSEMBLEA GENERALE DEL SINODO DEI VESCOVI - ottobre 1980