Anna Rowlands reflects on the Synodal process and examines the shared values of Pope Francis and the French philosopher Simone Weil.
For the last year, I have been moving between two seemingly parallel worlds: the writings of the 20th-century French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil and the world of Pope Francis’s Synod on the synodal character of the Church. Although there have been times in recent years when I have wondered whether Pope Francis has read some Weil – comments made in his social writings on the uprootedness of modern societies are strikingly like hers – these were not projects that I imagined would intersect.
