The Church’s ordinary way
Synodality: possibilities and tensions
Zoom Links
Tuesday 2nd December
12:00-8:00pm GMT
Session 1: Welcome and Opening Keynote
12-1.30pm
Keynote: Synodality and Sea-Routes: The Philippine Church Sailing On! Exploring the tensions and pastoral possibilities of a synodal Church
Speaker: Estela Padilla, theologian and community organiser,
Synod Implementation Commission, Philippines and Asia
Zoom link Stream 1: https://worldvision.zoom.us/j/94875212551
Chair: Avril Baigent, University of Durham
Break 1.30-2pm Early Career Cafe
Session 2: Parallel Papers Session 1
2-3.15pm
Exploring sites of synodality
Participants will be invited to select a stream to join on the day. Abstracts are available in the pdf above. Comments and responses can be submitted via chat.
| Stream 1 Realities of Synodality | Stream 2 The Complexities of Co-Responsibility | Stream 3 Synodality and Spirituality |
| Chair: Clare Watkins | Chair: Lucy Rauer | Chair: Pat Jones |
| Zoom link Stream 1: https://worldvision.zoom.us/j/94875212551 | Zoom link Stream 2: https://zoom.us/j/91781719969 | Zoom link Stream 3: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/98881141795?pwd=sQWbkabHAiGAryKYKbudRADfakbZSv.1 (Passcode 410738) |
| Jens Van Rompaey and Jade Willaert KULeuven Simultaneity of LGBTQ and Synodality: Parallel Paths or Intersecting Journeys | María José Bravo Vargas Durham University The Theological Basis for and Factors Relating to Lay Involvement in Decision Making – On Balancing Unity and Catholicity in a Synodal Church | Anton ten Klooster Tilburg University The sensus fidei and discontinuity in ethics: a building block for synodal discernment. |
| Harold Mozley Marriage Care What marriage can teach us about synodality | Anna Wera Wilms University of Oxford, Sciences Po, Holy See Mission to the United Nations Living Community: What Synodality and Democracy Can Learn from Each Other | Monica McArdle Diocese of Salford Listening with the Whole Body: Embodied Awareness for Synodal Communion, Participation, and Mission |
| Megan Lowes-Bolin John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH Young Adults and Synodality: Re-Engaging a Disconnected Generation | Wojciech Sadlon Formation Center for Discernment at Institute for Catholic Church Statistics “Discernment in Relationship” as the Application of Synodality in Catholic Formation | Amanda Rachel Bolanos Duke Divinity School Lo Cotidiano and the Little Way: A Synodal Lens of the Virtue of Solidarity in Ada María Isasi-Díaz, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, and Dorothy Day |
Break 3.15-3.30pm
Session 3: Parallel Papers 2
3.30-4.45pm
| Stream 4 Creating the conditions for change | Stream 5 Edges and Peripheries | Stream 6 Catholicities in Context |
| Chair: Karen Kilby | Chair: Tricia Bruce | Chair: Avril Baigent |
| Zoom link Stream 1: https://worldvision.zoom.us/j/94875212551 | Zoom link Stream 2: https://zoom.us/j/91781719969 | Zoom link Stream 3: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/98881141795?pwd=sQWbkabHAiGAryKYKbudRADfakbZSv.1 (passcode 410738) |
| Ana França-Ferriera and Angus Ritchie The Centre for Theology and Community Not only with words… Synodality, Community Organising and Catholic Social Action | Caterina Guardamagna University of Liverpool Liturgical Discrimination and the Challenges of Synodality: Voices from the Peripheries in Catholic Online Spaces | Romnick I. David San Beda University and De La Salle University A Dance of Prayer: The Lived Theology and Liturgical Consciousness in the Caracol Devotion |
| Clare Watkins Durham University Synodality and ecclesial culture change: theological learning from organisational change theories. | Laurence Raran Worcester College, University of Oxford Migrant Catholicism in Post-Christian England: A Study of Lived Catholicism in Catholic Diasporas in England and Wales | Eline Huygens KU Leuven Relational Lives: Catholic Women’s Intimacy and Belonging in Contemporary Belgium |
| Beáta Tóth Sapientia College of Theology, Budapest, Hungary The Need for an Anthropology of Synodality | Phil McCarthy Pilgrim Ways Walking Pilgrimage: an ‘unsung site of synodality’ | Mc Kyle Vilaz Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Beyond Sunday Obligation: Exploring Catholic Youth Religious Engagement in Leuven, Belgium |
| Luke Joseph Buhagiar (University of Malta), Matthew Pulis (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), and Ljiljana Cumura (University of Belgrade) Prayer Intensity and Civic Engagement: The role of technological mediation across lived Christianities |
Break 4.45-5.15pm
Session 4: 17.15-18.45pm
Keynote: Synodality and Its Discontents: Why I Am Excited About the Synodal Process
Speaker: Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, S.J., Dean and Professor, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University
Chair: TBC
Zoom link Stream 1: https://worldvision.zoom.us/j/94875212551
Break 6.45-7pm
Session 5: Pop up Podium Papers
7-7.30pm
Zoom link Stream 1: https://worldvision.zoom.us/j/94875212551
| Kathryn Lamontagne and Sofia Pannozzo Boston University: Fostering Undergraduate Research on Lived Catholicism Christopher N. West University of Aberdeen: Faith Seeking Wisdom: The Sapiential Orientation of Practical Theology and Qualitative Research Katalin Füzér University of Pécs: Unexpected resonance: a trust reading of lay participation in local innovation ecosystems, community-led local development and synodality Marcin Jewdokimow UKSW Poland: Individualization within a cloistered community. Towards lived aspects of religious life in a cloistered, female monastery Theresa Alessandro All Kinds of Catholic podcast: Everyday Conversations Nurture Our Faith |
Session 6: 7.30-8pm
Plenary Conversation: Reflecting on the Breadth and Messiness
Zoom link Stream 1: https://worldvision.zoom.us/j/94875212551
Virtual Bar: 8pm – 8.30pm
Zoom link Stream 1: https://worldvision.zoom.us/j/94875212551
Wednesday 3rd December
Session 7: Early Session 7.30-9am
Another opportunity to watch Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator’s keynote with live conversation afterwards
Zoom link Stream 1: https://worldvision.zoom.us/j/94875212551
Day 2 12:45-7:00pm GMT
12.45-1pm Welcome and Recap
Session 8: 1-2.15pm
Archbishops’ Panel: The Joys and Challenges of Synodal Leadership
Archbishops Franz Lackner (Salzburg), Jason Gordon (Port of Spain), Dabula Mpako (Pretoria) and John Sherrington (Liverpool) in conversation with Anna Rowlands and Karen Kilby
Zoom link Stream 1: https://worldvision.zoom.us/j/94875212551
Break 2.15-2.30pm
Session 9: 2.30-3.45pm
| Stream 7 Synodality and Theological Horizons | Stream 8 Becoming Synodal Dioceses | Stream 9 Voices from a Migrant Church |
| Chair: Avril Baigent | Chair: Pat Jones | Chair: Greg Ryan |
| Zoom link Stream 1: https://worldvision.zoom.us/j/94875212551 | Zoom link Stream 2: https://zoom.us/j/91781719969 | Zoom link Stream 3: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/98881141795?pwd=sQWbkabHAiGAryKYKbudRADfakbZSv.1 (passcode 410738) |
| Michele Dillon University of New Hampshire Synodality, Lived Catholicism and Contextual Theology | Alessandro Rovati Belmont Abbey College Love One Another: Synodality and Diocesan Life | Tiffany Hunsinger University of Dayton Voices from the Margin: Laywomen, Diaspora, and Synodality in the Catholic Church |
| Anne Béatrice Faye Ecole de synodalité de Dakar Quand La Synodalite Interroge Le Lieu Du Discours Theologique: Une Reponse Venue D’ailleurs (with translation) | Julian Paparella Venerable English College, Pontifical John Paul II Institute, & KU Leuven From clericalism to charisms: Situating synodality between clergy burnout, diversifying leadership, and revitalising communities | Qwayne Ybe Guevara Diocese of Parramatta The Mission is Communion: Synodality and the Theology of Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains |
| Lisa Lickona St. Bernards School of Theology A Spirituality of Synodality: A Key Move in “Dilexit Nos” | Jos Moons Boston College Synodality Needs Strategy: Learning from the Diocese of Parramatta | Ward Biemans Tilburg School of Catholic Theology Towards intercultural pastoral care for Catholic migrant couples and intercultural couples in the Netherlands |
Break 3.45-4.15pm Practitioner Cafe http://Stream 2 link: https://zoom.us/j/91781719969
Session 10: 4.15-5.30pm
Keynote: Alive Catholicism: Ordinary Catholics Amid an Extraordinary Synod
Speaker: Professor Tricia Bruce, Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, University of Southern California
Chair: Professor Mathew Guest, University of Durham
Zoom link Stream 1: https://worldvision.zoom.us/j/94875212551
Break 5.30-5.45pm
Session 11: 5.45-7pm
Final Plenary – Drawing together the learning for synodality and for Lived Catholicism
Tricia Bruce, Jos Moons, Michele Dillon and Avril Baigent, chaired by Karen Kilby
Zoom link Stream 1: https://worldvision.zoom.us/j/94875212551
Lived Catholicism 