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“Synodality” means whatever Pope Francis wants it to mean

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“You keep using that word,” says Mandy Patinkin’s Inigo Montoya to Wallace Shawn’s hapless Vizzini in Rob Reiner’s 1987 adaptation of William Goldman’s The Princess Bride, “I do not think it means what you think […]

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Readings: Is 50:5-9a
 Ps 116:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 Jas 2:14-18
 Mk 8:27-35 A triptych—from the Greek word meaning “three-fold”—was a form of artwork that emerged in the early centuries of Christianity and became popular during […]

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