Will Synod Move Needle on Evangelization or Vocations Crisis?

Indeed, the synod’s 366 voting members are expected to tackle contentious issues like lay governance and priestly celibacy. But the assembly will also address less controversial, bread-and-butter matters, like evangelization and seminary formation, and local Catholic leaders in U.S. dioceses and parishes are waiting to see how the deliberations could assist — or complicate — their work back home.