I write these words on 9 October, as the Synod on Synodality officially launches its two-year process of… well, I’m not sure just what. You are reading this no more than a few weeks from the Feast of Christ the King on 21 November. It is difficult not to notice the ironic tension of these two events in the life of the Church. And – at least in terms of the Preparatory Document and the most prominent national example of “synodality” in the worldwide Church today – it is also difficult to reconcile them.