Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Confusion Worse Confounded…

If you wanted two words to describe the Synod on Synodality, the event that begins today in Rome, it would have to be deep confusion. Unless you wanted to add a third, deliberate. Because it’s been clear from a series of concrete measures that what’s been said is not what’s going to happen. And what’s going to happen has not been said. Yet there’s a method, of a sort, to this madness. To begin with, the very format of this Synod is already a kind of deliberate confusion – and for a reason…