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LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD \u2013 2023: #9<\/strong><\/a> (20\/10)<\/p>\n Dette brevet innledes slik: LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD \u2013 2023: SPECIAL EDITION 3 :<\/a> <\/strong>\u00a0(21\/10)<\/p>\n Dette er en prestasjon av en tekst av biskop Erik Varden: LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD \u2013 2023: #10<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(23\/10)<\/p>\n Der leser vi bl.a.:
\nDomus Australia,\u201d a pilgrim guest house and hotel near the Porta Pia in the Castro Pretorio neighborhood of Rome, is a living memorial to its founder, Cardinal George Pell, who died unexpectedly this past January. Cardinal Pell\u2019s absence at Synod-2023 is keenly felt, although in different ways. Those who took inspiration from his courageous truth-telling and boundless good cheer miss him terribly. Those who were frightened and chastened by that truth-telling are relieved that he\u2019s not on the scene to make a big difference, as he did at the Synods of 2014 and 2015. Yet his disciples are here, and in men and women like Archbishop Anthony Fisher, O.P. (Pell\u2019s successor as archbishop of Sydney) and Dr. Ren\u00e9e K\u00f6hler-Ryan (who informed a Synod press conference earlier this week that \u201cas a woman, I\u2019m not focused at all on not being a priest\u201d) the Pell spirit lives on. … …<\/p>\n
\nErik Varden is bishop-prelate of the Territorial Prelature of Trondheim, Norway. A native of South Norway, he grew up in the village of Degernes. Varden was educated at Cambridge University and the Pontifical Oriental Institute before becoming a Cistercian monk of Mount St. Bernard Abbey in Leicestershire, making his solemn profession in 2007. Ordained priest in 2011, he became the eleventh abbot of Mount St. Bernard in 2015. In 2019, Pope Francis appointed him territorial prelate of Trondheim, and he received episcopal ordination in Nidaros Cathedral the following year \u2013 the first native Norwegian to be bishop in Trondheim in modern times. He is the author of several books, most recently Chastity: Reconciliation of the Senses, published by Bloomsbury Continuum. His online blog, Coram Fratribus, is read throughout the world.\u00a0The lecture below, which is apt spiritual reading for Synod-2023\u2019s third Sunday, is published here by kind permission of Bishop Varden.<\/p>\n
\n… That the \u201cprocess\u201d of \u201cdiscernment\u201d through \u201cdialogue\u201d is the important thing at Synod-2023 has been repeated ad infinitum (and occasionally ad nauseam) for three weeks. One is reminded of the tortures of \u201csensitivity training\u201d in the 1960s and 1970s. In fairness, though, there is a truth here that should be acknowledged. Two distinguished synodal participants have told me that the small-group discussions, however aggravating for being micro-managed and often emotionally driven, have been useful in tempering some of the loopier ideas being promoted under the rubric of a \u201cConversation in the Spirit.\u201d …<\/p>\n