The Vatican has released the results of its synodal sessions.

It’s one of these weird mystery documents the church puts out that is so in love with its own jargon that it is hard to know what to make of it. Catholics are apparently supposed to take the “synodal style” into just about everything. Here is an extremely tedious section at the front trying to describe the contents:

In order to support this work and help make it concrete, the Pathways suggest a number of areas in which the local Churches may question themselves in order to recognize steps of reception and development: promotion of a synodal spirituality (cf. FD, nos. 43-46) and of a liturgy lived in a synodal key (cf. FD, no. 27); fostering of ministries and charisms; access by lay faithful to leadership roles that do not require the Sacrament of Orders and to other ecclesial responsibilities (cf. FD, nos. 60, 75-77); practice of ecclesial discernment (cf. FD, nos. 81-86), decision-making processes in a synodal style (cf. FD, nos. 93-94)........

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