In 50 years no one in the pews in my city will remember the synod on synodality (I am not sure how many of them remember it *now*), whereas all of the church ladies that I rub elbows with (normie and trad-adjacent and Latin-Mass-trad; online or cable-tv-only) are aware of Medjugorje and have opinions about it, and have either been there …
In 50 years no one in the pews in my city will remember the synod on synodality (I am not sure how many of them remember it *now*), whereas all of the church ladies that I rub elbows with (normie and trad-adjacent and Latin-Mass-trad; online or cable-tv-only) are aware of Medjugorje and have opinions about it, and have either been there or know many people who have been there and also have opinions about that. My expectation is that the press conference will be a nothingburger partly because no one wants to upset millions of church ladies and *in the mode in which they receive it* it will say something like "continue to believe whatever you want about it" (I think that it will actually say something more nuanced than that), and partly because no one realizes that we do not love nuance and we will project a high-dimensionality object onto a plane.
In 50 years no one in the pews in my city will remember the synod on synodality (I am not sure how many of them remember it *now*), whereas all of the church ladies that I rub elbows with (normie and trad-adjacent and Latin-Mass-trad; online or cable-tv-only) are aware of Medjugorje and have opinions about it, and have either been there or know many people who have been there and also have opinions about that. My expectation is that the press conference will be a nothingburger partly because no one wants to upset millions of church ladies and *in the mode in which they receive it* it will say something like "continue to believe whatever you want about it" (I think that it will actually say something more nuanced than that), and partly because no one realizes that we do not love nuance and we will project a high-dimensionality object onto a plane.
At this point: "too big to fail"?