This is a good commentary by Russell Shaw who was a spokesman for the USCCB back in the day and far from a rigid, reactionary traditionalist with mental problems.
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With time running out, the work product will be presented to the weary participants at a moment when many will be looking for something – anything – to point to as the fruit of the first stage of the Synod on Synodality. Unfortunately, however, the whole procedure will also contribute to already existing suspicions of manipulation.
We have heard repeatedly that the desired result of the whole process is a synodal Church equipped for evangelizing outreach to the peripheries. Very good. But what is to be the message to the peripheries: “Come join us in a giant consultation process that we call ‘Church’”? Frankly, I hope not.
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I can't wait until "they" get this out of their system the way "they" want to go about it.
Hopefully, something recognizable will be left when the dust settles. If not, wagons-ho farther East.
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