The veteran Rome correspondent Edward Pentin returns to Merely Catholic, the podcast series for the Catholic Herald, to discuss with Dr Gavin Ashenden the Instrumentum Laboris, or working document, of the forthcoming Synod on Synodality, which has been published by the Vatican ahead of the first of the sessions in October.

Together in this 53rd episode they consider the contents of the document and the extent to which it might be described as authentically Catholic. They also address concerns about whether the working document is in fact an exercise in political modernity which is starkly at odds with the teachings and traditions of the Catholic Church.