“If the Church is not synodal,” Pope Francis has said, “it is not the Church.” And this month, the process that is reviving the spirit of Vatican II reaches a turning point.
13 October 2022, The Tablet
Synodality and the listening Church
What Francis has launched is a process which is both old and new.

The Pope started the synodal process a year ago.
PHOTO: CNS, PAUL HARING
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