RECENT COLUMNS
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Diane Montagna
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David Warren
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Stephen P. White
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H.W. Crocker III
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Randall Smith
NEWS
COMMENTARY
RECENT COLUMNS
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Diane Montagna
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David Warren
-
Stephen P. White
-
H.W. Crocker III
-
Randall Smith
NEWS
COMMENTARY
Synodality without sanctity
George Weigel, First Things
Friday, July 21, 2023
Pope Benedict XVI often said that, in today’s skeptical and cynical world, the saints make a more persuasive case for the truth of Christianity than the most sophisticated arguments. One has to wonder, then, why the Working Document for the Synod on Synodality is virtually devoid of references to the saints, or to the Church’s heritage of holiness over two millennia.