https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/there-it-synodality
MGB: Synodality is a process rather than the end product, which frightens those who want morality to be an absolute statement on what has always been true. Such a belief is anachronistic, a golden age view of a consensus that never was. On the other side, people who want change are willing to use the process, In the end, however, they also want the Church to outline definitive teaching on sexuality. This includes all people, even if it means forcing less developed nations to proceed farther than their elders are willing to go. We cannot only focus on what the truth is, but why it is so. Of course, there may not be agreement here either because then we are arguing about the underlying relationship between God and Man, whether morality is for God's sake or man's.
Every generation teaches doctrine anew as the language of reason evolves. Traditional societies mist accept change with the march of each generation into its own modernity. Traditional cultures simply allow more latitude to the elders of the Church than those who are called modern. The traditionalists are ultimately right about the human heart being universal - going beyond the relativism of authority to decide what is true regardless of the facts at hand. These facts exist in an intellectual context that favors science, including human development, over tradition in order to seek new absolutes. It does not repudiate the idea of truth.
Until all sides accept this, growth will be a difficult process Those who feel left behind will throw up obstacles for change. Synodality may help that process as long as it is not simply the latest gimmick. We must remember that unless we love one another, no one will recognize our discipleship.
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