synodality

Similarly, I liked the Orthodox model of "synodality" for handling certain issues of supra-diocesan significance in the Church.

The divide over the divide Mike L 2007

Similarly, I liked the Orthodox model of "synodality" for handling certain issues of supra-diocesan significance in the Church.

Archive 2007-01-01 Mike L 2007

Just as the filioque seems to me logically affirmable in addition to, not instead of, the monarchy of the Father, so the doctrine of papal authority defined at Vatican I is logically affirmable in addition to, not instead of, synodality.

The divide over the divide Mike L 2007

I have even come to believe that the Catholic social teaching about "subsidiarity" could and should be applied to the Catholic Church's own inner workings, which would end up looking a lot like Orthodox synodality.

The divide over the divide Mike L 2007

But I could find no good reason back then, and can still find no good reason, to believe that Vatican I's understanding of papal authority is logically incompatible with synodality as the normal way of addressing the relevant sorts of difficulites.

Archive 2007-01-01 Mike L 2007

But I could find no good reason back then, and can still find no good reason, to believe that Vatican I's understanding of papal authority is logically incompatible with synodality as the normal way of addressing the relevant sorts of difficulites.

The divide over the divide Mike L 2007

I have even come to believe that the Catholic social teaching about "subsidiarity" could and should be applied to the Catholic Church's own inner workings, which would end up looking a lot like Orthodox synodality.

Archive 2007-01-01 Mike L 2007

Just as the filioque seems to me logically affirmable in addition to, not instead of, the monarchy of the Father, so the doctrine of papal authority defined at Vatican I is logically affirmable in addition to, not instead of, synodality.

Archive 2007-01-01 Mike L 2007

Together with primacy, synodality constitutes the backbone of the Church's government and organization. ...

ORTHODIXIE ... Southern, Orthodox, Convert, Etc. 2008

Therefore, in having today the privilege to address Your Synod our hopes are raised that the day will come when our two Churches will fully converge on the role of primacy and synodality in the Church's life, to which our common Theological Commission is devoting its study at the present time.

Clerical Whispers 2008