Yesterday, the participants in the Synod on Synodality made a pilgrimage through the St. Sebastian catacombs, the burial place of at least three early Christian martyrs.
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Synod Diary: A synodal church requires sacrifice
The task of becoming a truly synodal church will demand sacrifices from all the baptized, writes Zac Davis.
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Synod Diary: Confessions of a Catholic headline writer
Surely the problems facing the modern family, the Amazon, the universal church cannot be boiled down to a single headline.
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Synod Diary: A synod doesn’t decide—it discerns
“The synod is not a council. It does not take decisions as a council does. Its task is to discern, not decide,” one synod member explained to me.
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Synod Diary: The synod will be successful if the delegates change
The synod secretariat has gone to extraordinary lengths to encourage each member into a disposition of openness so that maybe, just maybe, the Holy Spirit can act.
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Synod Diary: What sets this synod apart? Prayer.
What strikes me most about the synod, now in its third day, is the climate of prayer that envelops it, Gerry O’Connell writes.
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Synod Diary: Giving up my expectations for the synod
An inauspicious first day in Rome was also a chance for me to hit pause and and try to shed some of my own fears about the synod process.
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Synod Diary: Taking the long view of the synod
I have spent the better part of the past two years trying to understand what synodality is. Today, it finally started to click.
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Synod Diary: Pope Francis’ response to the ‘dubia cardinals’ tells us a lot about the synod
Pope Francis’ “yes, and” message to cardinals critical of his papacy is reflective of the synod as a whole.
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Synod Diary: Let’s learn to journey together.
Anyone who has attended a synod of bishops will tell you that it’s more about the journey than the destination.