A Church that Accompanies
Tomas Halík (Prague)
1.Synodality, catholicity and ecumenicity
1.1. Between the first and second sessions of the synod, new tasks and challenges emerge. Greater attention needs to be paid to the wider context of the synodal renewal, to the preconditions and consequences of this process. If the synodal reform of the Church is to bear good fruit, it must be understood and implemented in a broader context, as part of a much deeper process of transformation than simply transforming a rigid clerical system within the Catholic Church into a net of flexible communication.
1.2. Synodality, the common way (syn hodos), is designed to renew, revive and deepen not only not only communication within the Church, but the Church’s ability to communicate with other systems in society, with other cultures and religions, with the whole human family.
1.3. The synodality is to be an inspiring response to the question of how to overcome the crisis of globalization, how to transform a civilization which is technologically and economically interconnected and, at the same time, dangerously divided, into a culture of coexistence in peace and justice.
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