Synodality’s Been a Problem for a Long Time

Two bishops and two other clergy in black cassocks walking across St. Peter's Square in Vatican City

Reading Church history is about an education in complexity. Take, for instance, the history of the Arian heresy in the fourth century. The Church in the fourth century was certainly a “synodal Church,” a phrase that has become a code word for some. The examples of the synods following the Nicene Council are worth looking at in terms of the newly discovered concept of “synodality.

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