At the conclusion of the III Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, celebrated in 2014 to treat the topic, The Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the Context of Evangelization, Pope Francis decided to make public the Bisschoppensynodes
Relatio Synodi - Familiesynode 2014
3e Buitengewone Algemene Bisschoppensynode
(18 oktober 2014), the document which concluded the synod’s work. At the same time, the Holy Father indicated that this document would be the Lineamenta for the XIV Ordinary General Assembly to take place from 4 to 25 October 2015 to treat the topic, The Vocation and Mission of the Family in the Church and Contemporary World.

The Bisschoppensynodes
Relatio Synodi - Familiesynode 2014
3e Buitengewone Algemene Bisschoppensynode
(18 oktober 2014), which is sent as the Lineamenta, concludes in the following words: “These proposed reflections, the fruit of the synodal work that took place in great freedom and with a spirit of reciprocal listening, are intended to raise questions and indicate points of view that will later be developed and clarified through reflection in the local Churches in the intervening year leading to the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops” Bisschoppensynodes
Relatio Synodi - Familiesynode 2014
3e Buitengewone Algemene Bisschoppensynode
(18 oktober 2014)

The Lineamenta has a series of Bisschoppensynodes
Vragenlijst bij de Relatio Synodi
T.b.v. Lineamenta voor de 14e Gewone Bisschoppensynode 2015
(9 december 2014) aimed at knowing how the Bisschoppensynodes
Relatio Synodi - Familiesynode 2014
3e Buitengewone Algemene Bisschoppensynode
(18 oktober 2014) is received and to generate an in-depth examination of the work initiated during the Extraordinary Assembly. It is a matter of re-thinking “with renewed freshness and enthusiasm, what revelation, transmitted in the Church’s faith, tells us about the beauty, the role and the dignity of the family” Bisschoppensynodes
Relatio Synodi - Familiesynode 2014
3e Buitengewone Algemene Bisschoppensynode
(18 oktober 2014). From this vantage point, we have “one year to mature, with true spiritual discernment, the proposed ideas and to find concrete solutions to so many difficulties and innumerable challenges that families must confront” Paus Franciscus - Toespraak
De synode heeft de waarheden over het huwelijk nooit ter discussie gesteld
Aan het slot van de Buitengewone Synode over het gezin
(18 oktober 2014). The results of this consultation, together with the Bisschoppensynodes
Relatio Synodi - Familiesynode 2014
3e Buitengewone Algemene Bisschoppensynode
(18 oktober 2014), will serve as the basis for the Instrumentum laboris of the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of 2015.

For this purpose, the episcopal conferences are asked to choose a suitable manner of involving all components of the particular churches and academic institutions, organizations, lay movements and other ecclesial associations.