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Synod-2023: Reversing Vatican II?

July 5, 2023 George Weigel 25

The first words of the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church — one of the council’s two most important texts — signaled a decisive development in Catholic self-understanding. Rather than begin its reflection […]

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A laborious, and vacuous, instrument

June 28, 2023 George Weigel 29

It would not be quite accurate to describe the Working Document for the October 2023 Synod (its Instrumentum Laboris, or IL) as “disappointing.” No one who has followed the “synodal process” underway since 2021 could […]

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Synodality and Its Issues

November 30, 2022 Francis X. Maier 30

Persons worried about the current “synodality” process in the Catholic Church have good reasons to be anxious. The car wreck of the German Catholic “synodal path” on matters of sexuality and Church governance is one […]