RECENT COLUMNS
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Fr. Robert P. Imbelli
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Francis X. Maier
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Richard A. Spinello
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Carrie Gress
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Fr. Paul D. Scalia
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RECENT COLUMNS
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Fr. Robert P. Imbelli
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Francis X. Maier
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Richard A. Spinello
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Carrie Gress
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Fr. Paul D. Scalia
NEWS
COMMENTARY
Dispiriting signs for Synod on Synodality
Msgr. Hans Feichtinger, First Things
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
The 2023 Synod risks becoming a project of fruitless navel-gazing. Reform will only happen if the Church remembers that she exists because of Christ and “in order to evangelize,” as Paul VI said. Unless it is truly open to the Word of God, it will either implode, much as the Synodal Way in Germany is imploding, or end with a whimper.