Poverty, migration, abuse, the role of women, sexual identity at the centre of the Synod’s work on synodality. Ruffini: “No polarisation, it is an experience of sharing”. Appeals for peace and for the suffering of peoples plagued by conflict. Cardinal Lacroix: “Listening to others leads to refining one’s own thinking”. The voice of Papua New Guinea in the speech by Grace Wrackia and the testimony of Luca Casarini: Helping brothers and sisters in the Mediterranean is a gift.