Synod: 2009 as a 'Year of Preaching'?
By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
Rome
Over the first week and a half of a Synod of Bishops, the roughly 250 members have five minutes each to say whatever?s on their minds. That makes for moments of drama, but it also complicates efforts to isolate trends.
Judging solely by the first morning of discussion, however, it would seem that three points already seem to be emerging as recurrent themes: