WANTED: SERIOUS THEOLOGY AND PASTORAL CHALLENGE

RESPONSES TO THE SYNOD’S SECOND ROUND OF DISCUSSION-GROUP REPORTS

On October 16, the Synod’s language-based discussion groups issued their reports on the second part of Synod-2018’s Instrumentum Laboris ,or working document. LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD shared the reports with a range of Catholics engaged in scholarship and in pastoral work. A selection of their immediate responses follows.XR2

From a U.S. theologian:

 Some consistent requests across the small group circles are worth noting: