By David Warren, The Catholic Thing - Perhaps my criticism of the Instrumentum Laboris, and the various documents that follow from it through the Synod on Synodality, is trivial. This is because I find them trivial. Doctrines are suggested without any argument besides the implication that they are modern and up-to-date... To start narrowly and personally, I did not become a Catholic in order to be modern and up-to-date. I did have to choose. ....