Last week, in the rather prosaic setting of Bristol, England, a gathering of some dozens of aspiring reformers gathered for what they ambitiously called the “Root and Branch Synod.” It was not a mainstream Catholic event, and would have probably escaped much notice, except that its participants plan on moving their discussion, and their agenda, into the mainstream of the upcoming synod on synodality. And it might work.
 

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