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1. Greatful to the @USCCB @bpdflores for facilitating today’s listening session with theologians on @Synod_va process (over 100 today) - I was very happy to see many friends from @theCTSA @CTStheology @ctewc - few lasting thoughts 1/7
2. I am filled with #gratitude for all the work that has gone into the #synod so far - while these listening sessions might have been organized earlier in the process, today’s event was well planned and facilitated
3. But where is theology in the #synod? The final North American report speaks a lot about the need for formation in synodality and even #Catholicsocialteaching (awesome!) but no mention of theologians or Catholic higher education - natural instruments for this formation
4. Of all the continental reports Latin America had the best treatment of the role of theologians in the church’s mission - this is sadly missing from North America -
5. Catholic theologians (many of them now lay people) are very well positioned to help the church in research, analysis and formation BUT there is a growing gap between theologians and the local institutional church - both sides are drifting apart and don’t know how to engage
6. Do Catholic theologians, so many wounded by clericalism, still even want to support the local church? Do bishops, with everything on their plates, see theologians as having an ecclesial vocation? Are we even seen? And what about the theologian in parishes and lay groups?
7. The synodal path is an exciting opportunity to rebuild trust- to return to the source - The Source - and to look together towards the future. @Synod_va
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