“These 11 months will be like a pregnancy,” Father Timothy Radcliffe told the synod delegates. “We, my brothers and sisters, are pregnant with new life.”
“We’ve got to be careful about blaming everything all our opinions, our interests, lobbies, and factions putting all that on the Holy Spirit,” he said.
The Church’s synodal process will culminate in two global assemblies at the Vatican. The first will take place Oct. 4–28 and the second in October 2024.