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The Hamlet-like doubt regarding the synod is becoming more and more intense. Pope Francis in the Accompanying Note to the Final Document of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops declared that this document “participates in the ordinary Magisterium of the Successor of Peter (cf. EC 18 § 1; CCC 892)”. Strangely, however, reference is still made to Episcopalis communio (2018) in which the non-bishop participants in the synod do not have the right to vote and this is for the purpose of preserving the episcopal and thus magisterial aspect of the synod. In reality, in April 2023, in advance of the first session of the Synod on the synod, substantial changes were made, so that the 70 non-bishops appointed (priests, religious and lay people) had the right to vote and were therefore de facto equated to bishops. Now, how can one still say that the final document of the Synod is a magisterial act when the nature of the synod has changed? And therefore how can it participate in the magisterium of the Successor of Peter? It is not the law that makes the truth but it is the truth that makes the law and the magisterium, otherwise we would be in a situation of mere magisterial positivism. Furthermore, the final document of the Synod deals mostly with procedural changes. Where is the doctrine of faith and morals taught in continuity with the magisterium of the Apostles for this act to be qualified as “magisterial”? A side, however, for the various sedevacantist or quasi-sedevacantist fringes, who see in this umpteenth act a reason to say that the pope is not pope, throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The fundamental problem is another: what is the Magisterium?