As an American, as a young person and as someone who never showed their work during math class, I am naturally inclined to care more about results than the process that produces them.

After a heartrending testimony in the synod hall, Father Timothy Radcliffe said: “I hope it changed us.”

When asked whether the women in the synod hall felt they were being heard, Sister Pat Murray replied as any tough nun might: “We have been well able to make our point and use our time and space well.”

This synod, more than any other, is built on the premise that realities are greater than ideas.

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.

The task of becoming a truly synodal church will demand sacrifices from all the baptized, writes Zac Davis.