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“It is not overstating things to say we are already two synods behind when it comes to implementation. Let’s not make it three in a row,” writes Synod expert, Professor Eamonn Conway.

There are two choices left to the laity. One is to allow ‘the Spirit kindled in their hearts…grow faint’ or alternatively they can become activists.

“And so we must guard against Synod fatigue and not give up hope or lose momentum in demanding urgent change from our bishops and keep pushing for justice,” writes activist Miriam Duignan.

“One gentleman recently said to me ‘I fear there’s an imposter in the Vatican! ‘ To which I
replied, ‘just one?’, writes Fr Joe McDonald.

There’s a tendency, at least among conservative Catholics in the US, to critique everything Pope Francis teaches in light of what the Church taught in the past, writes Paul Fahey.

The Bochum-based theologian Thomas Soeding has defended the ongoing reform process of the Catholic Church in Germany.

Editor Garry O’Sullivan and Deputy Editor Brandon Scott were in Rome during the Synod and interviewed Dr Thomas Söding, a German theologian who was very involved in the German Synodal Way and is part of the expert group that drafted the Synod Synthesis document.

During the Synod in October, Editor Garry O’Sullivan was in Rome and interviewed Sr Joan Chittister, famed preacher and prophet, also in Rome, in an exclusive for The Synodal Times.

“People listened to each other, and when they do that it builds a culture of listening and dialogue, and this culture of synodality offers a path out of the polarisation in the Church,” writes Garry O’Sullivan.