Is Germany facing ‘synodal fatigue’?

There is one thing that participants in the synodal way agree on: it has been a grueling process.

There is one thing that participants in Germany’s “synodal way” agree on: it has been a grueling process.

A session of the German synodal way’s sixth plenary assembly on Jan. 30, 2026, in Stuttgart. Credit: Synodaler Weg / Marko Orlovic.

When the initiative was launched in December 2019, its organizers thought it would last around two years. Six years lat…