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 Cardinal Tobin: ‘Synodality’ is Pope Francis’ ‘long-game’ plan to change
Catholic Church
A synodal Church 'can't show up with an imperialist attitude where you
claim to have all the answers.'
Tue May 18, 2021 - 12:12 pm EST
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May 17, 2021 (LifeSiteNews <http://lifesitenews.com/>) — U.S. Cardinal
Joseph Tobin said that Pope Francis’ “long-game” plan to effect change in
the Church — to the point of bringing about “the Church’s own conversion” —
will be accomplished through the vehicle of “synodality.”

“Synodality is, in fact, the long-game of Pope Francis,” said Tobin,
Archbishop of Newark, during a May 4 Zoom lecture
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Limeq5TyI> for Loyola University Chicago
which was hosting its annual lecture in honor of Cardinal Bernardin in
connection with the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage.

Tobin said that synodality is one of the “most misunderstood” phrases in
the Francis pontificate.

“At this point, synodality is a long-established buzzword of this papacy.
Francis keeps calling for a more decentralized church, one marked by
collaborative and consultative decision-making, a functionality we
generally associate more with the horizontal structures of churches of the
East as opposed to the top-down Roman hierarchy in the West,” he said.

The cardinal noted that Pope Francis has called the next synod of bishops
to focus on synodality. The October 2022 meeting will focus on the theme
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-calls-for-next-world-meeting-of-bishops-to-focus-on-synodality>
“For a synodal Church: communion, participation, and mission.”

“The coming gathering is essential for our shared growth as the body of
Christ to be more aware and more intentional in our adoption of what Pope
Francis sees clearly, and advocates openly, as a model of the Church that
the Lord expects from us in this millennium,” commented Tobin about the
upcoming meeting. “A millennium,” he continued, “… even in Church terms
that is what we call a long-game. And that is why I would like to spend
some time reflecting with you today on how synodality is, in fact, the
long-game of Pope Francis, how it challenges us, what it calls us to be,
where it is leading us, and how that process will require changes in how we
‘do’ and ‘are’ church.”

The 68-year-old archbishop of Newark was made a cardinal by Pope Francis in
2016. He claimed
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/francis-appointed-cardinal-the-church-is-moving-on-the-question-of-same-sex>
in 2018 that the “Church is moving on the question of same-sex couples.” He
drew criticism that same year for tweeting “Nighty-night, baby. I love
you,” and then deleting the tweet, saying that it was a private message
meant for his sister.

Tobin sees that the Church has been set on a course since Vatican II to
become a synodal Church.

“John XXIII read the signs of turmoil and destruction that had followed
humankind out of the first half of the 20th century, saw that the Church
had to be as intentional and missionary as it possibly could with its
witness. And, the way to achieve it, the way to achieve all this, was
through a council. In effect, he called on the council to create a
blueprint for the engine that would power the barque of Peter in the third
millennium. John cast the vision: This is what we need to build. Vatican II
produced a blueprint. Paul VI set to work constructing it. John Paul II
made sure it kept to the exact specifications required. Benedict XVI put on
the finishing touches on its propulsion engine. And now Francis has flipped
the switch to ‘on.’”

The cardinal said that synodality in the Church in previous centuries was
misused and that the time has come to use it rightly.

“We cannot deny that for centuries [in] our existence as a Church,
synodality was, in fact, used to kick people out … With the early councils,
we would come together to repudiate this heresy, to define that dogma, and
the body of Christ could lumber through history,” he said.

“But, I would posit that we’ve entered a new stage of the journey, one in
which the acts of synodality do not look so much like sweeping dogmatic
definitions as they do fine-tuning how the Gospel is applied to the signs
of the times,” he continued.

“With that comes the next important point of Francis’ long-game:
conversion. When I say conversion, I’m talking about the Church’s own
conversion, a new way in understanding and approaching how we carry out our
mission. Francis has rightly decried the mindset of ‘but we’ve always done
it this way.’ When you’re towing two millennia of baggage after you on the
journey, it behooves you to be intentional about which tools you have at
the ready and which tools you’ve stocked away in some forgotten luggage
compartment,” he added.

Tobin said that a synodal Church is one of “listening” and “dialogue.”
It “can’t show up with an imperialist attitude where you claim to have all
the answers,” he said.

He criticized those within the Church as “rotten” who attempt to apply the
Church’s laws to concrete situations.

“Folks who seem most threatened [by Francis’ plans for the Church] from the
beginning have been the ones with the most engineered grasp of all the
norms and canons. If A equals ‘irregular union,’ and B equals ‘not living
as brother and sister,’ then A plus B equals ‘never can be admitted to the
Eucharist.’ To this I would posit that you can be the most knowledgeable
mechanic on earth and still be a rotten driver.”

Tobin quoted from the Pope’s 2016 encyclical *Amoris Laetitia* to shed
light on the meaning of synodality. Francis wrote, “Not all discussions of
doctrinal, moral, or pastoral issues need to be settled by interventions of
the magisterium.” Tobin commented that “what Francis was saying was that
the Vatican is not the only part of the body of Christ,” implying that
bishops’ groups have a role in settling such matters.

Many high-profile Church leaders, however, have criticized a concept of
synodality that is being used in some countries, such as in Germany, where
the bishops’ “Synodal Path” is being used to undermine perennial Church
teaching on the male priesthood, marriage, and sexuality.

Cardinal Raymond Burke criticized the concept of “synodality” in a 2018
interview. “It’s become like a slogan, meant to suggest some kind of new
church which is democratic and in which the authority of the Roman Pontiff
is relativized and diminished — if not destroyed,” he said. Burke said the
traditional meaning of the term synod used to be “to find ways to teach the
Catholic faith more effectively and to promote the proper discipline in the
Church. That’s basically what a synod of bishops is — that’s its
definition.”

Cardinal Robert Sarah, while he was prefect of the Congregation for Divine
Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, was also critical of how
synodality was being interpreted. “People are trying to detach the local
churches from Rome. People want to be autonomous with regard to Rome and
the vicar of Jesus Christ, that is, Peter, he who gives direction to the
church of Rome,” he said in a 2019 interview
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cdl-sarah-criticizes-synodality-jesus-never-created-bishops-conferences-or-local-churches>.
Sarah said that “without Peter, everything in the Catholic Church would be
destroyed, reduced to fragments and become nothing. Jesus never created
bishops’ conferences or local churches. It is on Peter that He built His
Church. Destroying the unity of His church amounts to rejecting Jesus.
People want to tear up and destroy the unity of the Church.”

Bishop Athanasius Schneider has also raised concerns
<https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/exclusive-bishop-athanasius-schneiders-analysis-of-youth-synod-final-docume>about
the concept of synodality, saying in a 2018 interview that the term is
being used by some to “promote their own agenda” within the Church with the
intention to “transform the life of the Church into a worldly and
Protestant parliament style with continuous discussions and voting
processes on matters that cannot be put to a vote.”
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