Pope Francis greets people during a meeting with representatives of bishops’ conferences from around the world at the Vatican. The recent criticism of the German Church and its decisions on Der Synodale Weg raises starkly the question about the ambit of permitted discernment and whether there are unspoken rules about the limits of synodality.
Such an ambitious vision necessarily anticipates, even welcomes, variance among the estimated 1.4 billion Catholics across the world to whom Francis is appealing. Communion, Participation, and Mission are unlikely to be identical in every place in every region. Surely we do not seek that.
Aggiornamento may have slipped from recent memory but synodality builds on that foundation commenced 60 plus years ago by the clarion call of John XXIII and in effect reignites the journey on the endless pathway. Why endless? Because, as Richard Lennan explains in Tilling the Church, the Church is an unfinished project, tilling with God’s grace as it seeks conversion with the specifics of its future to remain unknown. “Trust in God’s grace propels the tilling of the Church,” Lennan writes.
The gratuitous call from God “is a call that concerns both those who have received the sacrament of Orders, consecrated persons, and all lay faithful, man or woman: it is a call to all”. Then quoting from Ad gentes, the Pope said, “The Church has not been really founded, and is not yet fully alive, nor is it a perfect sign of Christ among men, unless there is a laity worthy of the name working along with the hierarchy.
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