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\nIn your distress, <\/strong>
\nwhen all these things shall have come upon you, <\/strong>
\nyou shall finally return to the LORD, your God, <\/strong>
\nand listen to His voice.<\/strong>
\n(Deuteronomy 4:30)<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\nW<\/span>here does truth come from? Where is the Church’s teaching derived from? What authority does she have to speak definitively? <\/p>\n

I ask these questions in the context of the “Synod on Synodality” that loosely wrapped up in Rome last week (a “synod” is a gathering, normally of bishops; “synodality” is a process of collaboration and discernment). Pope Francis wants us to become a “Synodal Church” that journeys along a “synodal way,” to the point of “decentralization”[1]<\/sup><\/a>cf. n. 134<\/a><\/span><\/span>