Church may not be an international corporation, but Synod office seems to love business meetings

So, the Vatican released its latest synod-implementation document on Monday, and it reminded me of something Pope Francis said a few years ago about how the Church is not a large multinational company headed by managers who carefully study how best to sell their product.

“The Church,” Francis said in remarks to journalists, on November 13, 2021, “does not build itself on the basis of its own project, it does not draw from itself the strength to move forward and it does not live by marketing...