Homily 5.11.23 by Frank Brennan 6

Let’s pray for those many women who will search in vain in the Synod Synthesis Report for any real sense of urgency that ‘in the one Spirit we were all baptised in one body’ (1 Cor 12:13) – to quote the very verse of scripture with which the Synthesis Report begins.

The roundtables have been a good start. 15% of the voters being women has been a good start. The spiritual conversation and deep, attentive listening have been a good start. But there is still far too much of this being called rabbi, father and teacher, with all the accoutrements of clerical office. From this other side of the world it does seem to me that ‘the progressives got the process, and the conservatives got the content.’