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Letter Number Thirteen | Xavier Rynne II, ed. | First Things

In today’s LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD…

  • Xavier Rynne II notes that the work of the Synod Fathers would be made considerably easier by a clearer indication of the procedural end-game of the Synod: who will be voting on what and when.
  • Rynne considers a few of the important theological and pastoral discussions taking place outside the Synod hall—the Para-Synod.
  • George Weigel reads the life of Cardinal Ercole Consalvi and reflects on the history behind the challenge of the New Gallicanism.
  • Part three of Bishop Robert Barron’s, “Imago Dei as Privilege and Mission.”
  • Archbishop José H. Gómez of Los Angeles offers a Synod intervention on “Divine Pedagogy and Spiritual Childhood.”


Letter Number Thirteen | Xavier Rynne II, ed. | First Things

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