As the second and final assembly of the Synod on Synodality begins, one of the advisers helping to facilitate discussions summarises it as a stage in the dramatic transformation of Christianity into a Church that will grow through encounter and witness, just as in its first centuries
The shape of the Church to come
Synod on synodality

illustration: Alamy/Sandema
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