By now, you’ve probably heard that Pope Francis postponed the upcoming synod on synodality for a full year, from October 2022 to October 2023, and ordered every ecclesiastical jurisdiction and single member of the faithful to participate in an expanded “preparatory” process.
If the incongruity of making the Church more synodalitous by papal diktat ever occurred to him, neither he nor his lieutenants and mouthpieces have given any evidence of it.
(Yes, I know “synodalitous” is not a word, but if Cardinal Czerny can pass on giving even a working definition of synodality while also reiterating Pope Francis’s call for the whole Church to be governed by it, then I can play the “let’s make up a word” game, too.)
