Permanent Synodal Church — A Progressive Jesuit Cardinal’s ‘Dream’ Come TrueToday’s announcement of a two-year process for the upcoming synod on synodality appears to reflect the ideas of Jesuit Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, who viewed synodality as a vehicle for questioning Church teaching.Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini of Milan visits St. Peter's Basilica on April 12, 2005. The Vatican’s announcement today that Pope Francis has changed his plans for the next Synod of Bishops and made it into a multiphase process over two years comes closer to fulfilling a “dream” of the late progressive Jesuit Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini. The...