The Catholic Herald - The Pope, elected in March, described synodality as “an attitude, an openness, a willingness to understand”. He said it meant that every member of the Church had a voice and a role to play “through prayer, reflection … through a process”... He said that synodality should not be seen as diminishing episcopal or priestly authority. Some clergy, he noted, had felt threatened by the process, but he insisted that synodality was about creating communion. “It’s not on an institutional hierarchy, but on the idea of ‘us together’ and ‘our Church’,” he said.