I mean, I think everyone would in fact agree that, were it not for Francis, an extraordinary consistory called just so that cardinals could actually meet each other and re-learn how to give counsel would not have happened.
Having been to a lot of synodality meetings on a parish, diocesan and national level I would agree with the Cardinal that you do know synodality when you're doing it. The trouble is that without a definition of what it is *not* - without clear parameters - I've had real trouble making the concepts accessible to others. A "way of being Church" is actually what it is but that's much too amorphous, much too abstract, when people are poorly catechized on the nature of the Church and how she shares in Christ's mission. The language around synodality is horribly exclusionary for people in the pews because it doesn't meet them where they actually are in terms of formation, so most disregard the ideas behind it. Once they *do* it, once they have been consulted, they see the consultation as a positive. For it to work in the average diocese the jargon needs to be dropped entirely, I think.
"Everyone said, thought, or felt" clearly does not include Cardinal Zen in "Everyone"...
I mean, I think everyone would in fact agree that, were it not for Francis, an extraordinary consistory called just so that cardinals could actually meet each other and re-learn how to give counsel would not have happened.
LOL I suppose you could interpret it that way...
Those answers re: what synodality means jumped the shark.
“Being College…”
So, you mean, LARPing Animal House?
Having been to a lot of synodality meetings on a parish, diocesan and national level I would agree with the Cardinal that you do know synodality when you're doing it. The trouble is that without a definition of what it is *not* - without clear parameters - I've had real trouble making the concepts accessible to others. A "way of being Church" is actually what it is but that's much too amorphous, much too abstract, when people are poorly catechized on the nature of the Church and how she shares in Christ's mission. The language around synodality is horribly exclusionary for people in the pews because it doesn't meet them where they actually are in terms of formation, so most disregard the ideas behind it. Once they *do* it, once they have been consulted, they see the consultation as a positive. For it to work in the average diocese the jargon needs to be dropped entirely, I think.
Will no one reteach Europeans the blessing of the article adjective??
What is an article adjective?
The, a, and an.