Are Catholics going to be asked the same questions until they produce the right answers, wonders Hugh Somerville Knapman OSB
On 16 October, at his Angelus address, Pope Francis announced the decision to extend the process for the Synod of Bishops on synodality by another year, to October 2024, and to split the bishops’ deliberations into two sessions a year apart. This has not been uncontroversial. Four motivations for the Holy Father’s decision present themselves. One is official, the other three are unofficial; and none are necessarily mutually exclusive.
