Although I like Leo, this sort of statement highlights the bizarre, superfluous nature of the PR campaign for “synodality.” The sentence that Leo uttered did not need the word. He simply could’ve said, “The Church recognizes in the other a brother or sister and a companion on the journey, never a rival.” “Synodality” adds absolutely nothing to the sentence except a nonsense word.
Pope Leo: “A synodal Church recognizes in the other a brother or sister and a companion on the journey, never a rival. This is particularly important in a region such as the Korean peninsula, which still bears the painful wound of division.” vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/…
Francis said—more than once—that young people who attend the traditional liturgy have psychological and emotional problems. But do please tell us more about Cardinal Sarah’s “incendiary, belligerent language.”
Spain defeated Argentina 1-0. Or as it’s called in soccer, “a blowout.”
#WorldCup2026Final
I'm really not sure why these two got arrested. They were only stating a fact.
#empirestatebuilding
I like Leo, I really do, and I’m relieved he’s pulled the Church back from Francis’ synodality-as-backdoor-doctrinal-change. But instead of scrapping synodality altogether, which he should do, he’s trying to retcon it as . . . well, nobody knows. “Synodality” might no longer pose an immediate threat to the faith, but it still loiters around Rome tempting the hierarchy into further wasting everybody’s time.
Pope Leo XIV addressing Synodality to the Sacred College of Cardinals this evening:
“Please note, as we heard from Cardinal Grech, synodality is not a set of meetings, nor a working method. It is a spiritual style. It is born from encounters, grows in listening and matures in discernment. The real question is not how many conversations we will be able to organize, but what evangelical quality our meetings will have. When we listen to each other with humility and freedom, leaving room for the Spirit, our conversations do not remain an exchange of ideas, but become a place of conversion, in which we grow together in fidelity to the Lord.”
