When I imagine how the next 11 months can be used most fruitfully, I think about something, or rather someone, who is largely missing from the synod in Rome: the parish priest.
Synod on Synodality
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Synod Diary: 3 synod storylines to watch for in the final days
As we approach the expected release of the synod’s summary report on Saturday evening and the closing liturgy on Sunday, here are three questions that I will be paying attention to.
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Podcast: Unpacking the synod’s first letter to ‘the people of God’
As the first session of the Synod on Synodality in Rome draws to a close, the members have released a Letter to the People of God. The letter is the first of two documents expected from the synod before it concludes its business in Rome on Oct. 29.
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Pope Francis wants the synod to be a political community—but one based on faith, not interest
Most modern constitutional states today describe themselves as republics. Such republics sound as though they have a lot in common with Catholic social teaching. They do.
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Synod Diary: The synod isn’t hiding its disagreements. That’s a good thing.
“Recognizing the divergences is unitive,” a bishop member of the synod told me. “It can provide healing.”
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As the synod’s first session closes, assembly addresses letter to the ‘people of God’
In a new letter to the People of God, the synod participants emphasized the importance of continued discernment for the Church’s future.
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Podcast: When Catholic doctrine can change—and when it can’t
This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley discuss a, if not the, big question hanging over the synod: Can it change church teaching?
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Synod Diary: Will synod members get to vote on the final document?
What message does it send to women when the first synod to include them as full, voting members opts to forgo an actual vote in favor of approval by applause?
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Pope Francis wants the synod in every parish. Here’s how to bring it to yours.
It will not be enough to read any document that comes from the synod; Catholics must experience the synod, must do synod. The best place to do this is in your parish.
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What Asia is bringing to the Synod on Synodality
The Rev. Clarence Devadass, a Malaysian priest and synod delegate talks with hosts Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell about the Asian delegation’s contributions at the synod and the challenge of unifying such diverse experiences in a document.