2023 Synod Faces a Credibility and Practicality GapCOMMENTARY: The planetary process leading up to the 2023 synod has to confront two major challenges before it begins. Six weeks before the Catholic Church-wide consultations for the 2023 synod on synodality are set to begin, the Vatican released a vademecum, or “handbook,” that will guide a process that is supposed to occupy every single diocese in the world from October 2021 to April 2022.The most massive set of meetings ever conducted in the history of the Catholic Church was announced only four months ago, between the third and fourth waves of...