In writing to the College of Cardinals ahead of June’s consistory, Leo XIV has signalled that the age of ‘synodality above all else’ has come to an end.
For many years, Catholics have been beset by the omnipresent word synodality. It has been pushed on the Church often at the expense of all else. Since the onset of the Synod on Synodality, the word ‘synodality’ has been identified by its key Vatican advocates as being an intrinsic part of the Church’s life and nature.
For the most radical synodal revolutionaries, the process offered a chance to undermine Church teaching, craftily performed by appealing to the Spirit, as if God is guiding His Church into a new era, a new Church with new morals and teaching.
