Fr Declan Hurley, Chairperson of the National Synodal Team, Julieann Moran, General Secretary for the Irish Synodal Pathway and Archbishop Eamon Martin, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland chatting during a break at the Pre-Synodal Assembly of the Irish Synodal Pathway which was held in Kilkenny. Photo: John McElroy. Conservative Catholic voices have told this paper that recent episcopal oversight of the Irish Synodal Pathway has transformed what they once feared might be an open-ended discernment exercise into something more structured — and more recognisably Catholic — ahead of the National Synodal Assembly in October. The Irish Synodal Pathway is now in its most…
