Originally published at National Catholic Register
A synod commission writing team is currently incorporating amendments into the document’s text, which synod delegates will vote on Saturday evening, paragraph by paragraph.
For those concerned about making sure the Synod on Synodality doesn’t open the way to contested changes in Church teaching and practice, the draft version of its final document appears to be good enough.
But it might not stay that way.
That’s because 1,000 amendments to the text, which was released to delegates at the start of this week, are currently being incorporated into the final document by a small writing team overseen by a commission of synod members.
That text, in turn, will be read to delegates on the morning of Saturday, Oct. 26, who will then vote on it that evening, paragraph by paragraph, before its final approval.
And the wait to see what’s in and what’s out of the final version is leaving some delegates on tenterhooks.
“We’re not over the hump yet,” one synod member told the Register.
The Register spoke to three delegates from three different continents to get a sense of the initial draft, which was distributed in paper-only format to synod participants to mitigate leaks to the
