FINAL PRE-SYNOD COUNCIL HELD FOR SPECIAL ASSEMBLY FOR EUROPE

VATICAN CITY, MAR 25, 1999 (VIS) - The fifth and final pre-synodal council for the Second Special Assembly for Europe of the Synod of Bishops was held in the Vatican March 16-18 under the presidency of Cardinal Jan P. Schotte, C.I.C.M., and in the presence of four cardinals, four archbishops, two bishops and staff members of the secretariat general of the Synod of Bishops.

According to the communique published today on the meeting, the council "introduced the presentation of the final draft of the ''Instrumentum laboris'" and dedicated time to a survey of possible points to suggest for the "Relatio ante disceptationem."

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