THESE REFORMS THAT LOOK LIKE NOTHING AND CHANGE EVERYTHING
Dear subscribers,
Among the
reforms that seem like nothing and change everything
, there is the announcement Friday, May 21, by the Vatican of the future "synod on synodality".
This term "synodality", at the same time noble and technical, can make one flee but it is very popular among Protestants and Orthodox.
It goes way back in the history of Christianity.
It hides a reality that would resemble
a form of democracy
, however very tempered, in the government of religious institutions that Pope Francis would like to inject into ecclesial culture.
And this in the “spirit” of Vatican Council II.
This subject is not just a story of a Catholic “shop”.
Its stake is immense: introducing more "synodality" into the Catholic Church means
modifying a system of power
, until then centered on the top of the hierarchy and executed by an internal law of
obedience
to superiors, publicly promised by vows at the time. of the ordination of clerics who
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