George Weigel, First Things
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Pope Benedict XVI wrote that the historical-critical analysis had value in its time, but now we need to take into account “the living tradition of the whole Church”; one that reads the Bible within the context of the Church’s faith. Might something analogous be said about the Church’s recent explorations of “synodality” – that its essential fruits have been reaped and that it is time to bring those fruits to bear on the Church’s mission, which (as Pope Leo has reminded us since his election) is the proclamation of Jesus Christ as the light of the nations and the answer to the question that is every human life?
