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Pope Francis speaks to members of the Italian bishops’ conference and diocesan leaders involved in Italy’s national synod process on May 25 in the Vatican audience hall. The pope addressed questions and concerns members of the group submitted about his notion of fostering a “synodal church.” It has been a little more than a year since I started brushing up on my Italian.
In the early months of my involvement, several journalists said the synod process would inevitably reveal a Church divided culturally between Europe and Africa, divided between clergy and laity, and at war with itself over moral issues. I was told that participation was so low as to make the process meaningless, that the reports had probably all been pre-written, and that the process would be either a sell-out or a stitch-up.
One bishop compared the synod’s method of spiritual conversation to a disarmament process, and another told me his diocese would never be the same again . Many who participated in the synod spoke honestly about the difficulty of genuinely listening to someone you disagree with, or with whom you feel you have little in common beyond a baptismal identity.
Another discovery: The questions of the status and participation of women, increased transparency in the Church, and how to hold together love, mercy and truth in extending a welcome were not solely the concerns of the global North. These echoed from every corner of the Catholic world.
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