Synod on the Family

It’s been a couple of interesting weeks with all of the news coming out of the Extraordinary Synod on the Family at the Vatican. I’ve rounded up some thoughts of others below that I’ve found on the internet about the Synod. Probably the most important thing to remember is that we are only at the beginning of this process with an Ordinary Synod next year and a final document coming most likely a year after that. We shouldn’t be too surprised that the press is again having problems discussing Catholic teaching. Time for Preachers to once again step into the breach.

• Stanislaw Grygiel on a couple that should have been at the Synod and some of their thoughts from a pre-synodal meeting of the Council of Episcopal Conferences of Europe.
• Fr. Robert Barron on Having Patience for the Sausage-Making Synod.
• Fr. John Sims Baker of Nashville’s St. Mary’s gives a quick take over at his blog Finer Than a Frog’s Hair.
• Next month’s speaker Joan Watson (the new director of ministry formation for the diocese of Nashville) has some thoughts and a good set of links.
• And finally Pope Francis’ speech at the conclusion of the Synod.