The German language group, whose members include Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna, Cardinal Gerhard Müller of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich, has produced one of the most theologically simulating reports of the synod so far. We reproduce it below “We extensively discussed the concepts of mercy and truth, grace and justice, which are repeatedly understood as opposites, and their theological relationship to one another. In God they are not opposites. Because God is love, justice and mercy become one in God. God’s mercy is the fundamental truth of revelation, which is not opposed to other truths of revelation. Rather, it reveals their deepest meaning as it tells us why God revealed himself in his Son and why J