C&SI - Synod on Synodality - An Update with Julianne Moran - 21 July 2024 (S04E35b) (podcast excerpt)

On this weeks podcast excerpt we welcome Juliann Moran back to speak to John and Shane about the Irish Synodal Pathway and where things stand with it. Juliann Moran is the General Secretary of the Irish Synodal Pathway and she shares what has been happening with the Synod on Synodality and also the steps being taken for the Irish Synodal Pathway.

• In March 2024, a Facilitative Leadership Training Programme training sessions were held around the country to train people in theology of synodality, leadership models, time management and listening as a core leadership skill as just some of the topics covered in the training. 
• In April 2024 the Irish Conference of Bishops appointed the National Synodal Team tasked towards organising the Assemblies and working groups for the Irish National Synodal Pathway. The full team should be post by September 2024. 
• In May 2024 some 300 parish priests gathered just outside Rome to discuss how to implement synodality at the local level. You can read more about the event at Rome here.  The five Irish priests who took part reported back after their participation 
• Publication on 15th May 2024 of Towards October 2024 – Summary of Contributions from Dioceses and Groups of the Catholic Church in Ireland which was response to the invitation from the Secretariat of the Synod in Rome to deepen our reflections on the Report from its first synodal assembly in October 2023,  the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference received contributions  and a draft eight-page summary of the contributions was then prepared. The writing group also included a supporting document called Keeping the Synodal Dynamism Alive – a collation of testimonies and best practice from the Catholic Church in Ireland. This document is an un-summarised collation of testimonies of the work carried out, the lived experience of synodality in local churches, as well as the sharing of examples of good practice that was considered significant for the growth of a missionary synodal dynamism.
• Publication of the Second Instrumentum Laboris in July 2024 that will guide the work of the second session of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (2 to 27 October) . The document advances proposals for a missionary Church in which all the baptised participate in its life. Juliann takes us through the document and also the roles of the papal working groups.