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On the Road Together - More questions and answers
14 October 2015I enjoyed speaking in Rome with Joshua J McElwee of the National Catholic Reporter. Over the next two days, Joshua is publishing the interview that we conducted. You can visit Joshua's story at this link. Here's the text of the first part of that interview,... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Statements
On the Road Together - The search for something greater
13 October 2015It's taken quite a while, but finally a typically Roman melodrama (not untinged with psychodrama) has emerged in and at the fringes of the Synod. Its focus is the "private" letter to the Pope supposedly signed by 13 cardinals concerned about the Synod... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Statements
On the Road Together - Entering the mysteries
12 October 2015With the sun shining brightly on the free day, I decided to head to the Beda College for lunch. I have a student for the priesthood there, Brendan Gormley, and wanted to touch base with him. I also wanted to meet the new Rector, Fr Philip Gillespie, a... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Statements
On the Road Together - A space for pastoral creativity
11 October 2015Well, 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 this time of year. This city doesn't handle rain well. The water doesn't drain off properly,... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Statements
On the Road Together - The relatores in motion
11 October 2015Yesterday 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 from the groups. We were mercifully broken up into four groups... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Statements
On the Road Together - A rough shape emerges
9 October 2015Last 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 10-minute report on the first week's discussions into the Secretariat by 7pm. That was a tough call because the small group... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Statements
On the Road Together - Muddle and method
9 October 2015We'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 about a Synod - especially this one with all the preparation and expectation; and the intensity has probably... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Statements
On the Road Together - Morning tea
8 October 2015This 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 the occasion, as coffee is drunk, snacks consumed and business done. You'll see one very familiar... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Statements
On the Road Together - Some questions and answers
8 October 2015I 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 that was published as part of that story: Crux: What's struck... - Author: Archbishop Mark's Statements
On the Road Together - The search for focus
8 October 2015Today 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 the family. The method being used in this Synod is, as one bishop said, "cumbersome". That's...