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Cardinal Roche’s Welcome Tonic Against the Toxins of Catholic Polarization…

At the prayer vigil to launch the Synod on Synodality, St. Peter’s Square was decorated to look like a garden. That prompted me to return to some recent summer reading, The Gardens of God by Cardinal Arthur Roche, prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship. I recommend it as a welcome tonic against the toxins of polarization in the Church today. At the synod on Wednesday, Cardinal Roche took a routine role in the opening prayers…