Learning to write in the tropics

Its been many months, I have very consciously been underground but decided to turn bbc radio 4 on the other to listen to the news…. sometimes its good to reappear from time to time. And the Today show was interviewing a man (I didn’t catch his name) about the Synod in Rome. What I heard for the most part was concerning, on one side about the obvious misconceptions that were coming out and the confusion this could cause, and on the other side, because the misconceptions can very easily lead to disappointments and greater divisions in the universal church. We must pray that the Synod is especially about listening to each other and learning to dialogue and not about rupture.  A few days ago I taught a class on JPII and Ben. XVI and in preparing the class I was reminded of the two strands present at the second Vatican Council that then played out in the application of the council documents and was defined academically in the establishment of two opposing journals: Concilio and Communio. Th