What it’s like giving a speech inside a synod of bishops

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🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The synod on synodality learned a lot from the young people who attended the youth synod in 2018, says Julian Paparella, who was 25 years old when he addressed hundreds of bishops in that assembly. Now studying in Rome, he joins Zac and Ashley to shed light on the dynamic at work inside synods and how the process has evolved over the past five years to truly listen to lay—and especially younger—people. They also discuss: The young people’s call in 2018 for greater inclusion of women in the church The balance between learning synodality and tackling the hot-button issues that matter to many people who feel excluded from the church How conversion happens inside a synod among the participants In Signs of the Times, the part of the show where the hosts sift through Catholic news of the week, the hosts discuss the complicated process of the discussions in the synod on synodality. Links Julian Paparella’s Synodal Intervention America’s synod coverage What’s on Tap? Birra Moretti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Judge Whiticle, a podcast from American Media for Saints and Sinners.
0:16.0	You can join us each week for honest conversations about the Catholic Church in our world today,
0:20.8	often over drinks. I'm Ashley McKinlless and I'm joined by Zach Davis.
0:24.8	And are you sick of me yet? We're not quite a week into living together so we still got some time.
0:31.2	Yeah, doing all right. And and Sebastian Gomes I have nowhere
0:34.7	else to go that's true welcome back to my bedroom it's so good to be back here we
0:39.8	have a great show coming up this is our second episode from Rome. We have a
0:44.0	fascinating conversation with someone who has a lot of experience in Synod's
0:47.5	here in Rome. Yes, we're talking to Julian Poparella who, in addition to
0:51.4	being a friend of Sebastian's's was a delegate at the 2018
0:55.0	sit-in on youth he was a non-voting delegate at that Senate we had not made the step to
1:00.0	having lay people vote but he had a really great experience there that we're talking to him about,
1:04.7	and he's just a really smart guy. He's from London, Ontario. He's working on a doctorate in theology of
1:10.4	marriage and family at the John Paul II Institute here in Rome and
1:14.2	addition to all of that he's covering the Senate with salt and light media.
1:18.5	Yeah so stick around for that great conversation with Julian.
1:21.0	Julian recommended that we have a beer to drink so we have a
1:24.3	Moretti beer here, beer and Moretti. Maybe you've seen this back home but
1:27.8	cheers everyone. Cheers. And now we have signs of the Times, the part of our
1:32.4	show where we sip through the
1:33.7	Catholic news of the week so you don't have to. And the news this week is that
1:37.3	Zach and I are finally starting to understand how this whole Synod thing works.
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