Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler:
“A synodal Church is a listening Church,” proclaims the instrumentum laboris, the preparatory document for the Synod on Synodality. The theme of listening—to the Holy Spirit, to the people, to the needy, to the disaffected—is the overarching message of this document. To listen is to be synodal, and synodality is the announced goal of the entire process for this Synod.
But what is synodality? That is the question that Pope Francis has set before the Synod. The bishops who gather in Rome in October (along with the non-bishops who, curiously, will account for 21% of the voters in this “Synod of Bishops”) have the unenviable task of defining that term, and explaining how it should be lived out in the Church. Report is here.
