Pope Francis & Accompaniment | National Catholic Reporter

Pope Francis & Accompaniment | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Roddy offers an interesting reflection - of course accompaniment can mean a Church that is leading or a Church that his following.  I suspect that in dealing with the questions of the Synod, it must do a little of both.  The extent to which the Synod fathers actively engage the people and get their hearts, rather than their data, is the extent to which the Church will make progress.  Of course, we cannot enter this walk in confusion and they must end it with the smell of the sheep on them and a willingness to understand these questions a bit more openly than before. Sometimes the understanding of a truth can change, even if the underlying truth does not.  Reject even that, and there has been walking without listening and therefore no accompaniment.