Let us hope that the Synod’s final session will move on quickly from this unfortunate start.
It opened October 2 and will close October 27, and it is entirely safe to predict that it will conclude with what Pope Francis convened it to deliver—a resounding endorsement of synods and synodality that the Pope will happily endorse.
And right now? Now we run into a gag rule imposed on the synod participants by its managers "in order to guarantee freedom of expression."
