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Gavin Ashenden
Synod on synodality
Synodality can work … if leadership lets it
May 26, 2021
Despite its novelty – 50 years is nothing in Church time – the Synod, too, can fall into the same “functionalism” against which Pope Francis warned the Dicastery for Communication earlier this week.
The “new” synodal “process” is under-thought and oversold
May 21, 2021
If the incongruity of making the Church more synodalitous by papal diktat ever occurred to him, neither he nor his lieutenants and mouthpieces have given any evidence of it.
Pope Francis Postpones Synod on Synodality, Expands ‘Preparatory’ Programme
May 21, 2021
“The synodal process was not thought up in some office away from reality,” said Cardinal Grech, whose department was responsible for designing the new process in their Rome offices.
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