The call for reform in the Catholic Church is as old as the Church itself. Across the centuries, theologians and popes have emphasised that while the deposit of faith remains unchanged, the way it is lived and expressed must be renewed in every age. The French Dominican theologian Yves Congar, writing in 1950 in his…
Think synods are representative of a new Church? They’re older than you think writes Fr Eugene Duffy. The practice of holding synods at a diocesan level has deep roots in the history of the Church The first documented diocesan synod, in the sense of establishing legislation or issuing disciplinary decrees, was held in Auxerre in 585.…