After mostly negative response, Vatican deletes online poll on ‘synodality’

[Michie]

BOSTON – After a strongly negative response from several thousand users, the Vatican quickly took down an online poll this week on the concept of “synodality,” which is at the heart of Pope Francis’s high-profile consultation process set to conclude in October with a Synod of Bishops in Rome.

Published the morning of July 25, the poll asked the question, “Do you believe that synodality as a path of conversion and reform can enhance the mission and participation of all the baptized?” It offered offered either “yes” or “no” as a response.

The poll was published by the official accounts for the Vatican’s Synod of Bishops office on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Facebook.

These type of social media polls generally last for 24 hours, and as time went by, the answer “no” quickly began to rack up far more votes than the answer “yes.”

Continued below.

After mostly negative response, Vatican deletes online poll on ‘synodality’

This week the Vatican deleted a social media poll on the concept of “synodality” currently at the center of Pope Francis’s high-profile synod process and whether it would give a boost to church participation after it got a negative response.

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[Grip Docility]

BOSTON – After a strongly negative response from several thousand users, the Vatican quickly took down an online poll this week on the concept of “synodality,” which is at the heart of Pope Francis’s high-profile consultation process set to conclude in October with a Synod of Bishops in Rome.

Published the morning of July 25, the poll asked the question, “Do you believe that synodality as a path of conversion and reform can enhance the mission and participation of all the baptized?” It offered offered either “yes” or “no” as a response.

The poll was published by the official accounts for the Vatican’s Synod of Bishops office on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Facebook.

These type of social media polls generally last for 24 hours, and as time went by, the answer “no” quickly began to rack up far more votes than the answer “yes.”

Continued below.

After mostly negative response, Vatican deletes online poll on ‘synodality’

This week the Vatican deleted a social media poll on the concept of “synodality” currently at the center of Pope Francis’s high-profile synod process and whether it would give a boost to church participation after it got a negative response.

cruxnow.com

Michie,

Is this the correct definition of Synodality?

Synodality is a term used in the Catholic Church to describe the process of collaboration and discernment that bodies like the Synod of Bishops are created to express. It's a way of living out faith that involves speaking and listening to one another and the Holy Spirit to address the Church's issues and carry out its mission. Synodality is more than just meetings and assemblies, but rather the Church's way of working and living.


The Synod process aims to:

• Foster a lived experience of participation, discernment, and co-responsibility
• Inspire people to dream about the church
• Make people's hopes flourish
• Stimulate trust
• Bind up wounds
• Weave new relationships
• Learn from one another
• Build bridges
• Enlighten minds
• Warm hearts "

 

[Michie]

Michie,

Is this the correct definition of Synodality?

That’s what the clergy says the Church means by Synodality but most of us are not all that impressed by the exercise so far.

 

[Grip Docility]

That’s what the clergy says the Church means by Synodality but most of us are not all that impressed by the exercise so far.

Understood. Gratitude for your clarification.

 

[Michie]

Understood. Gratitude for your clarification.

You’re welcome.