By Auguste Meyrat, Crisis Magazine - After much conferencing, accompanying, and dialoging, the much-anticipated Synod on Synodality eventually concluded. As one Catholic commentator put it, the synod and the commentary surrounding it was an “apostolic nothingburger.”... As if to reinforce this bureaucratic nothingness, Pope Francis penned a new motu proprio soon after the synod that calls for a “paradigm shift” in studying theology. What is this shift exactly? Evidently, theology should move away from stuffy abstractions and move toward the lived experiences of people today—or some such idea.