The Synod on Synodality held in Rome from October 4 to 28, 2024, ended with a provisional impression of unfinished business, deliberately maintained by Pope Francis.
“Some members of the Synod of Bishops could end up feeling disappointed by the results of the synod.” Some will consider them ill-advised, even wrong. In the press conference of October 21 by the National Catholic Register, Fr. Timothy Radcliffe “cautioned people, especially the media, against trying to look for ‘startling decisions, headlines to come out of the final text. . . The document will need to be read as something seeking to bring a deep renewal of the church.”
The editorial director of the Vatican media, Andrea Tornielli, did not hesitate to define this “profound renewal,” on October 26: “The Synod on Synodality . . . asks for a change of mentality. It asks us not to consider synodality as a bureaucratic task to be implemented paternalistically with a few minor cosmetic reforms.”
“It calls for a rethinking of the ministry of authority, including that of the Successor of Peter. It calls for a role of greater responsibility for the laity, especially for women.”
As Jean-Marie Guénois noted on the Figaro website on October 27, “for this Vatican official [Andrea Tornielli], it is a question of creating “a new image of the Church where the ecclesial structures, in this new perspective, no longer represent the place towards which the laity must converge, but a support for the service that the people of God accomplish in the world.”
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