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- Thomas Schirrmacher with the Pope and an African friend.
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- Coffee with the Pope.
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- The Pope giving the final speech after voting in of the final document.
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- The synod fathers clapping relieved after 6 hours reading and voting on each of the 94 paragraphs of the final document.
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- The synod hall from the roof, right the backside of the Congregation of Faith.
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- Pope Francis with African synod fathers – disturbed by the wind.
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- Coffee break!
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- The Pope intermingling with people in the coffee break.
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- Leaving the synod building with the Cardinal of Ethiopia and the Archbishop of South Sudan.
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- Right lo left: The President of the Pontifical Council of the Family, the GeneralSecreatry of the Family Synod, his assistant.
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- Pope Francis thanks Thomas Schirrmacher for the printed version of his plenary speech.
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- The spartnatic synod offices behind the synod Aula.
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- This is the audience hall below the synod Paula. Here the Pope on Wednesday speaks to smaller groups before walking out to St meter’s square speaking to the masses.
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- The Italian Children’s Choir singing at the 50th Anniversary of the Vatican Synod.
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- St Peter’s seen from the roof of the Jesuit’s headquarter.
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- The Pope during his historic speech to thy synod at its 50th jubilee.
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- Ecumenical delegates a 50 years jubilee of Vatican Synod: From left: Methodist, Anglican, Estonian-Orthodox, Evangelical, Lutheran.
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- Thomas Schirrmacher addressing the plenary of the Vatican synod – everyone speaks from his seat.
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- Entrance hall of Hotel Santa Martha, where the Pope lives, right door leads to the dining room.
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- Rare photo: The technic room of the Vatican synod.
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- Without words.
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- The German couple Petra and Aloys Johann Buch report to the Vatican synod.
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- A rare picture on the roof of the synod hall with St Peter’s in the back: With the Serbian Orthodox archbishop of Vienna and the metropolitan head of the Orthodox Church in Estonia.
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- All pause one stay working: Reinhard Cardinal Marx, head of the German bishop’s conference, working in a synod pause.
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- Pope Francis, Thomas Schirrmacher, the Patriarch of Jerusalem in discussion.
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- Two theological giants discussion in a pause: Cardinal Kasper and Kardinal Müller.
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- End of a synod day, delegates leaving the synod hall.
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- The Pope asked for my German books on corruption and human trafficking.
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- Empty chair: The Pope leads the Angelus-Prayer on St Peters square, his chair in the synod is empty.
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- The synod in session, left in white the Pope.
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- The Pope praying at the opening of the session.
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- With two Cardinals, the presiding bishops of Germany and Austria.
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- The Pope mixing with the delegates.
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- The Pope mixing with the delegates.
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- Cardinal Marx in the middle of delegates – counselor to the Pope and head of the German bishops conference. He sits there without the read cappy.
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- The Pope preparing for the liturgy.
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- My best photo of the delegates – from the cabinet of the translators – the Pope is on the left side in white.
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- Thomas Schirrmacher with Cardinal Turkson from Ghana, the head of the Pontifical Council Iustitia et Pax (Justice and Peace), which handles all matters of ethics and social concerns.
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- I took this photo while talking with the Pope – that’s possible today.
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- This screen shows in green the delegates present and in yellow those excused. It also is used for votes – everything is technically very modern.
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- St Peter’s and the Apostolic Palace as soon from the garden on the roof of the headquarter of the Jesuit order.
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- The German discussion group in the central room of the Congregation of Faith in the Vatican.
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- Cardinals Müller and Marx and other members of the German discussion group of the synod on the balcony of the Congregation of Faith in front of the central room.
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- Working on a sentence of the synod document in the pause in the central room of the Congregation of Faith in the Vatican.
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- End of a day: delegates leaving, here Thomas Schirrmacher with the Patriarch of Antioch and Cardinal Rai, head of the Western rite Catholics in the Middle East.
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- The synod in session.
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- Viewed from my seat: The leadership of the synod including the Pope, the central screen telling who is speaking at the video screen of the speaking delegate.
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- Synod in session.
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- In the center of St Peter’s after the opening of the synod: from left: Patriarch Gregor III Laham of Damascus, head of all Catholics of Eastern rites, Thomas Schirrmacher, Cardinal Schönborn, Vienna.
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- The Pope preaching to the delegates of the synod.
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- The three Protestant fraternal delegates at the opening mass in St Peters: Form left: Baptist, Evangelical, Anglican.
