Synod on Synodality: A New Springtime or Pandora’s Box? by Edward Pentin

By Edward Pentin, November 27, 2023

Arlington Latin Mass Society, 8th November 2023, Edward Pentin

Well where to start? Once again we’ve had a month in Rome with plenty of acrimony and contention, lots of heat and, depending on who you speak with, not a lot of light.

Eagerly awaited by some, thoroughly dreaded by others, the first assembly of the Synod on Synodality on the theme “For a Synodal Church: Communion Participation, Mission,” is over.

It took place October 4-29 behind closed doors under kind of Chatham House rules and so effectively in secret, with carefully selected portions shared with the media. It wrapped up with a lengthy 42-page synthesis report, magically written in the space of three days, in which every paragraph, after amendments, passed with a two-thirds majority or more. …

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