The task of becoming a truly synodal church will demand sacrifices from all the baptized, writes Zac Davis.
Synod on Synodality
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Meet the lay woman who led the U.S. synod process
In this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle interviews Julia McStravog, a senior advisor on the Synod on Synodality at the U.S.C.C.B., to get an inside look into how the U.S. church organized itself to carry out the national and continental phases of the synod, and how those phases inform the ongoing meeting in Rome.
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Father Timothy Radcliffe showed at the synod: It takes a Dominican preacher to explain a Jesuit pope
Through the centuries, there have been many disputes between Jesuits and Dominicans. But when the Jesuits are in real trouble, they know they can turn to the Dominicans for help.
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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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Podcast: What it’s like giving a speech inside a synod of bishops as a young person
Julian Paparella, who was 25 years old when he addressed hundreds of bishops in that assembly, joins Zac and Ashley to shed light on the dynamic at work inside synods.
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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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Cardinal Tobin at the synod: the church is ‘most beautiful when the doors are open’
As a superior general and then as a bishop, the cardinal said he had attended six previous synods, and this is “the most diverse synod I’ve ever participated in.”
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Podcast: Why Pope Francis is insisting on synod secrecy
In this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen Dulle and Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell discuss the first week of the Synod on Synodality, and the strong emphasis from Pope Francis and the synod team to maintain discussions between participants confidential, both during and after the synod.
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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 week two opens with reflections on communion: ‘Can we find the courage to encounter reality, as it really is?’
The Catholic Church is called to be an instrument of communion, Anna Rowlands told synod participants. But it requires grace and “learning to ‘bear with’ reality, gently, generously, lovingly and courageously.“