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A series of free online lectures about synodality from Boston College provides a valuable resource for the church, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.
A conference in India reminded participants that they had been in an upper room, grieving the church and the world, but also learning to listen to one another to lead others forward on the synodal pathway.
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There s a short path that is long, and a long path that is short .
In the third seasons of the Netflix series Shtisel, an eminent ultra-Orthodox rabbi who heads a yeshiva in Jerusalem offers that bit of sage advice to a star student who is dealing with a life-and-death decision.
Short paths tend to become shortcuts leading nowhere, while wisdom suggests taking time to make a decision. A long path that is short is indeed a good way to explain the virtue of synodality, the biggest wager Pope Francis has made for the Catholic Church today.
Five and half years after he delivered what can be called his magna carta on synodality to the 2015 assembly of the Synod of Bishops, the pope s persistent push in favor of a synodal Church is having effects.