Steven P. Millies is Professor of Public Theology and Director of The Bernardin Center at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He earned his B.A. from Loyola University Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D., from The Catholic University of America. His scholarship explores the Catholic church’s relationship to politics in a perspective that embraces history, theology, law, ethics, sociology, philosophy, and political theory. He was associate professor of political science at the University of South Carolina Aiken. His book, Joseph Bernardin: Seeking Common Ground (Liturgical Press, 2016), won first place in the biography category for the Catholic Press Association’s 2017 Book Awards.
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Reflection questions:
1. How am I called to be a part of a synodal church? That is, how am I called to full participation as a member of the community of the baptized not only in worship and prayer or ministry, but also in bringing life to the church's encounter with its people—with itself?
2. What frightens me about synodality? That is, what in the church am I afraid that a more synodal church might disrupt or ask me to let go of?
3. What signs of God's presence do I discern in the church that have not yet been fully heeded? That is, how might the synod more fully empower the church to heed God's invitation "to bring everything together under Christ, as head, everything in the heavens and everything on earth"(Eph. 1:10)?
Here is a short article by Steven P. Millies to read in preparation for “What Is All This Talk about Synodality?
