By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - I haven’t been paying much attention to the process leading up to the Synod on Synodality. Perhaps because “Synod on Synodality” is too much of a tongue-twister for me. But from time to time I hear echoes... I hear that many people in our Church – which never used to be a democracy but is now becoming a democracy – feel that we must “listen” to Catholics who feel excluded – e.g., people in a non-sacramental marriage, gays, lesbians, pro-abortion apologists, transmen, transwomen, and non-binary people.