A younger version of myself confronts pre-synodal synodality in a suburban parish, In this episode (which I am reproducing here from my Substack feed), I describe a letter I wrote to an ex-priest who came to my home parish back in 1994 to offer an adult education series titled "A Church for Our Children."

Works Cited:

Flannery, Austin, ed. Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post-Conciliar Documents. 1975. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1980.

Hildebrand, Dietrich von. Image of Christ: Saint Francis of Assisi. 1963. Steubenville: Franciscan University Press, 1993.

John Paul II, Pope. Veritatis Splendor: The Splendor of Truth. Boston: Saint Paul Books & Media, 1993.

Closing song: "Do You Really Want to Know?" by Peter Mayer, from the album Heaven Below, copyright 2010. 

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