Tag: synod on synodality
Synod members begin small-group discussions on ‘synodality’
Delegates from Oceania and around the world have begun the formal work for the long-awaited Bishops Synod on Synodality in Rome
Xavier Rynne II: Letters from the Synod 2023, Special Edition
Cardinal Joseph Zen wrote a letter to the bishop-members of Synod-2023, which has been circulating privately. Permission was received to share this letter publicly. It is an honor to do so here, with its original bold-faced emphases included.
George Weigel: The most important event since the Second Vatican Council?
Those most enthusiastic about the Synod on Synodality that opens on 4 October are wont to say that it’s the most important Catholic event since the Second Vatican Council
Xavier Rynne II: Letters from the Synod 2023, #2
We dare not replace the deposit of faith—Christ the treasure, the eternal Word of the Father, traditioned to the Church—with some kind of process.
Xavier Rynne II: Letters from the Synod 2023, #1
One of the most important tasks of Synod-2023 will be the clarification of its own specific character and authority—and just what is meant by “synodality.”
Synod media blackout will undermine, not enhance, its credibility
“The pontifical secret is something that everyone knows, except the pope” goes one joke.
“A pontifical secret is something you can only tell one person...
Synod will be an Aussie affair
Pope Francis’ announcement of the participants for the October assembly of the Bishops Synod on Synodality has cemented Australia’s place as a key driver of the global synodal process, with Australians represented strongly at all levels.
George Weigel: A laborious, and vacuous, instrument
It would not be quite accurate to describe the Working Document for the October 2023 Synod (its Instrumentum Laboris, or IL) as “disappointing.” No one who has followed the “synodal process” underway since 2021 could reasonably have expected an IL of spiritual depth and evangelical passion.
Pope Francis grants voting rights at Synod on Synodality to women,...
About 21 per cent of the synod's 370 members will not be bishops and at least half of that group women, after a decision by the Holy Father
From Perth to Fiji, Oceania synod response captures diversity of the...
The final synodal document from Oceania tries to sift an enormously diverse region into a single document, no simple task
Synodality ‘neo-Marxist, New Age good will’, Pell says in parting column
In an article written for The Spectator prior to his sudden death, Cardinal George Pell says the synod documents need 'radical changes'
Sydney Synod on Synodality synthesis records hopes for reform
Australian diocesan submissions to the Bishops’ Synod on Synodality 2021-23 have overwhelmingly returned results calling for reform of Church structures and doctrine, with a...
