Is much of the talk about synodality pie-in-sky? Has the word to be used by every high-ranking cleric to prove he’s watching his career?
A recent Catholic newspaper gave three pages to synodality. The three pages could easily have been synopsised in some few short sentences.
The article included a picture of a number of people, including Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary general of the synod of bishops, who was in Ireland last week. The picture named only one person in the caption and that was Cardinal Grech. A former editor of The Star newspaper, Ger Colleran would never allow a picture to appear in a newspaper without all names mentioned.
It’s always the small things that give us away; that caption told its own story of how real synodality means to so many people in the church. Something else, right through the three pages, the word church was consistently spelt with an upper case C, how synodal is that?
Reading the article one was forced to ask what relevance it had to anyone who has lost interest in the Catholic Church, those who have been hurt and alienated by its priest and functionaries.
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