Why the Synod on Synodality is working, with lay delegate Linda Staudt

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On this week’s episode of “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac share a “conversation in the Spirit” with Linda Staudt, a lay delegate from Canada who was selected to participate in the 2023 and 2024 Synod of Bishops for her extensive work in Catholic education and her involvement at the local, provincial, and national levels of the Canadian church. With her wealth of knowledge and experience, Linda has become a tireless evangelist for synodal listening at the grassroots level. They discuss: - Linda’s experience of being selected as one of seven lay delegates to the Synod on Synodality from North America, and her initial reaction to being chosen. - The synodal process of listening, reflection, and discernment, and how it differs from traditional parliamentary-style meetings for its ability to reach and include the voices of those on the margins of the church. - Linda’s advice for parishioners and clergy who are frustrated by a lack of synodal engagement in their diocese or parish. Ashley, Zac, and the “Jesuitical” team join America’s “Inside the Vatican” team on their way to Rome to cover the 2024 Synod on Synodality. Great news: you can follow along from home! Visit AmericaMagazine.org/subscribe and you’ll get access to daily synod diaries along with our full coverage. If you have questions about the synod or topics about the Vatican you’d like us to cover during the synod, let us know! Send an email to [email protected] Links from the show: Five things to watch for in the upcoming October synod I listened to Synod delegates opposed to LGBTQ issues. Here are my responses. Women deacons, LGBT issues not on the agenda for October’s synod meeting Vatican II—and its media coverage—has a lesson for today’s synod: Don’t expect immediate results Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Joan and Bill Hanks Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago
0:05.1	is proud to support Jesuitical. On Thursday, October 3rd at 7 PM Central Time, you can participate in the center's second annual Jesuit lecture featuring America
0:13.6	media's very own Sam Sawyer S.J. Coming just mere weeks before the US
0:17.6	presidential election Sam will be speaking on the topic of
0:20.4	deep polarization in American Society.
0:22.8	This event will be live streamed and in person at Loyola Lake Shore campus.
0:27.0	For more information about this event and all of the Hank Center's upcoming events,
0:31.2	please visit LUC.ED.D.U. slash C.I.H. Hello and welcome to Jesuitical A podcast from American Media for Saints and
0:50.0	sinners. You can join us each week for honest conversations about the Catholic
0:53.7	Church in our world today, sometimes over drinks. I'm Ashley McKinless and I'm joined
0:57.9	by Zach Davis. It's good to be with you Ashley. I'm feeling a quite senodal
1:02.2	today. There's a sinodal chill in the air. Am I using the word right?
1:07.6	I still don't know what that word means. Just kidding. We are becoming experts on the Synod and we will soon be in Rome covering the Synod for our listeners.
1:18.0	That's right. We have a great preview episode this week.
1:21.0	Yeah, we're talking to Linda Stout. She lives in Windsor,
1:24.7	Ontario up in Canada, our friends to the north and she was one of the seven lay
1:30.1	people from North America selected by Pope Francis to be a delegate at the
1:35.0	Senate on Synodality in Rome last year and this October.
1:39.0	Yeah, so she is getting ready to head back to Rome this October as you said Ashley and
1:43.6	Linda's got this really great perspective one because she was in the room where
1:47.4	it happened last year but she's also got this wealth of experience working in
1:52.2	Catholic education but she also is a lay person, but isn't working for any diocese, any parish.
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