We Are Church: Link to Synod Symposium Zoom on 15 Nov

Our Synod Symposium on 15 November 2024 had 4 excellent speakers:

  • Penelope Middelboe
  • Diarmuid O’Murchu
  • Julieann Moran
  • Tom O’Loughlin

They made some interesting points:

* Cynical exercise poorly conceived

* Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas

* What is new in this supposedly new assembly?

* Next year the clergy and bishops should stay out of the meeting completely

* Round tables have stolen the show

* Proud that Ireland reported authentically

* If the Synod Synthesis is a thermometer, then the patient is very ill and very poorly informed

* To pray for vocations is to invoke a Calvinist sacramentality

Link to Zoom:

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