- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneWell, the sun has returned after the drenching horrors of yesterday. It rained non-stop for 24 hours, at times heavily - and that's not what you expect in Rome at...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneYesterday afternoon the 13 "relatores" or reporters from the small groups met to begin trawling through the 473 (yes, that's right) proposed amendments to the working document that have come...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneLast night was a horror - at the least the first part of it. In the late afternoon, I was told that I had to have the text of my...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneWe're just about at the end of the first week of the Synod and it already feels as if we've been at it a long time. There's a certain intensity...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneThis entry is almost a video blog, or a vlog, if you like: After the first session of the day, everyone races to morning tea. This gives you some sense of...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneI enjoyed speaking yesterday afternoon with the respected and widely read journalist, John Allen. John wrote a story that was published on the Crux website. Here's an excerpt of the interview...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneToday we had the first full day of small group work. We hacked our way through the first two chapters of Part I of the Instrumentum Laboris: the challenges of...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneYesterday afternoon, we finally moved into the small groups, which was a bit messy but refreshing. I say messy because the first challenge was to find the room where your group...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneThe video accompanying this post gives you a sense of the Synod Hall just before we began work this morning. It's time to meet and mingle - and you can...
- Author: Archdiocese of BrisbaneThe sun rises on Synod Day 2. In the afternoon yesterday we began the long haul of the three-minute interventions, with Cardinal Vingt-Trois beginning with the very lengthy list of...
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