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Synodality and Sanctity

July 19, 2023 George Weigel 31

Pope Benedict XVI often said that, in today’s skeptical and cynical world, the saints make a more persuasive case for the truth of Christianity than the most sophisticated arguments. One has to wonder, then, why […]

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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 […]