(John L. Allen Jr., Crux) As Americans know well, the Super Bowl is no longer just a football
game. It’s an entire fortnight of pre-game festivities, collectively
creating one of the most frenzied periods on the country’s annual
calendar. In a similar vein, if the Synod of Bishops on Synodality is this
fall’s Catholic equivalent of the Super Bowl, the next few days are
similarly chock-full of what might be described as pre-game activities,
creating a extremely busy period in and around Rome. (...)
