a real Copernican turning point a snippet of 'conversation in the spirit' a multidimensional impact on churches a new theology which gives 'flavour' athletes of synodality breathe synodality into academic theology circularity animated the synodal process discernment is synodal forgiveness for the sins against synodality mission is always synodal passes through a relational conversion preserve harmony in your discernment socio-cultural diversity in a multifaceted church teaching us to be bread for others the synodal methodology of conversation which aspect of 'PLACE' is important?For practical reasons (because the entrants are quite long they are hard to fit into a tweet), there will be a simple knockout competition conducted by Twitter polls, and no group stages.
SEMI-FINALS, with the full version of each bit of jargon. Illustrations produced by the Copilot AI program. forgiveness in the name of all the baptised for the sins against synodality 83
THIRD PLACE PLAYOFF understanding how to be a synodal church in mission thus passes through a relational conversion 45.9
athletes and standard-bearers of synodality 54.1 BRONZE MEDAL
FINAL forgiveness in the name of all the baptised for the sins against synodality 72 GOLD MEDAL
the principle of circularity that animated the whole synodal process 28 SILVER MEDAL
Has there ever been a World Cup of Bergoglian Insults ?
ReplyDeleteNot yet, but it's on my list.
DeleteI love the 'snippet of conversation in the spirit'. Who in the world came up with that? it's like a 'soupcon' or some other curious word I don't hear often. I will vote for that if X and I are on good terms today.
ReplyDeleteThis came from the @synod_va Twitter account in May; it can usually be relied upon to produce good jargon. The full message is:
DeleteAs we prepare for #Synod2024, the #synodalprocess is growing all around the world. Here is a snippet of 'conversation in the spirit' being experimented in #Mongolia.
Eccles, you could have a brilliant future as a Vatican spokesperson - have you applied?
ReplyDeleteYes…please apply Eccles.
DeleteA relaunch of the faith.... now with more branding! Less church! More walking togetherty! Oh... money for mission, please (Diocese of Nottingham, looking at YOU). Stop trying to out-Anglican the Anglicans! They're the pros!
ReplyDeleteThis one's not bad :
ReplyDeletethe ability of the “plurality of religions and cultures, the diversity of spiritual and theological traditions, the variety of the gifts of the Spirit and of the tasks of the community, as well as the diversity of age, sex and social affiliation within the Church” as an “invitation to each person to confront his or her own unconscious bias, resist the temptation of being at the centre, and open oneself to the acceptance of other perspectives.”
The dying countries' obsession ignored, and the dying generation's hobbyhorse sent to the knacker's yard. Apart from that, wittering gibberish, soon to be forgotten by the tiny few who had ever noticed it.
ReplyDeleteBeen there, done that. Smugly assuming that their views were in any case the consensus, members of the WASP elite on at least three continents once invoked their nth generation club rights to demand that their church change to suit their specifications. 26 years later, they are still screeching abuse at the insolent colonial darkies who were having none of it.
Such Baby Boomers were then in their pomp rather than in their early dotage, and Western Europe, North America and the Antipodes had yet to feel the full effects of mass immigration from outside each other. Their sociologically indistinguishable Catholic contemporaries from the same regions and from the whitest parts of Latin America, including Argentina, have now had the same experience, and they have had it from a far weaker position at home no less than abroad. Thank God for that.