LET’S PRAY THE HOLY FATHER DOESN’T ALLOW A DIIFERENT POINT OF VIEW TOMORROW BY THANKING THE GERMAN SYNODAL PROCESS

 

Pope: Synodality about listening to the Spirit, not a ‘majority consensus’

By Junno Arocho Esteves

Jan 13, 2022

|Catholic News Service

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Pope Francis gives his blessing during an audience with leaders of the French Catholic Action movement at the Vatican Jan. 13, 2022. The pope told the group that the synodal process is a path of engagement that makes room for the Holy Spirit, and not a “majority consensus like a parliament.” (Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media.)

ROME — The synodal process is a path of engagement that makes room for the Holy Spirit, and not a “majority consensus like a parliament” to guide the universal church, Pope Francis said.

Speaking with leaders of the French Catholic Action movement Jan. 13, the pope said that synodality is “not a plan or a program to be implemented” but “a style to be adopted” that listens to the spirit through the word of God, prayer and adoration.