Recovery in Rome:

WHAT THE SYNOD WROUGHT

There would seem to be no earthly reason why the seating arrangement of the French National Assembly in 1789, with its divisions between “left,” “right,” and “center,” should be mixed up in debates about the nature of the sacraments or the meaning of salvation. In fact,-however, there is every too earthly reason why this is so. The “extraordinary synod” that Pope John Paul II convened in Rome from November 24 through December 8 addressed a church that had become thoroughly politicized.

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WHAT THE SYNOD WROUGHT

There would seem to be no earthly reason why the seating arrangement of the French National Assembly in 1789, with its divisions between “left,” “right,” and “center,” should be mixed up in debates about the nature of the sacraments or the meaning of salvation. In fact,-however, there is every too earthly reason why this is so. The “extraordinary synod” that Pope John Paul II convened in Rome from November 24 through December 8 addressed a church that had become thoroughly politicized.