There has been a good deal of hype over this month’s Synod on Synodality in Rome, which will draw together nearly 400 participants. Touching on issues such as women’s ordination, LGBTQ+ issues and clerical celibacy, this year’s synod is the first of a two-part discussion that will culminate next October.
In the lead-up to this synod, conservatives who consider the process rigged and divisive are talking about schism, while progressives who see opponents of the process as obtusely stuck in the past and as obstructive to important processes of change have labelled their ideological counterparts “rigid”.
