The Narthex
A New Kind of Synod?
Manipulating the membership roster sets the agenda and determines the recommendations
By John M. Grondelski | May 2nd 2023 11:58 AMIn announcing that non-bishops would be able to vote in this fall’s Synod on Synodality, Rome tried simultaneously to hype and downplay the news. Channeling its inner Leslie Neilsen, the synodal website blandly headlined the change as “Some News for the October 2023 Assembly.” General Relator Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich gave…
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