School for Synodality

Welcome the School for Synodality’s second podcast series: Reading the Final Document Together. What next for our Church?  Avril Baigent explores the final chapter in the Final Synod Document ‘A Feast for all Peoples’ with our guest speaker Archbishop Jason Gordon, who provides practical insights into how we can go from theory and discernment, to synodal communion and action. They spoke about how...

We need everyone in the boat  Welcome the School for Synodality’s second podcast series: Reading the Final Document Together. Avril Baigent was joined by guest speakers from the Discerning Leadership Programme to talk about part 5 of the Final Synod Document, about how to bring people together and understand the mission of Synodality. David McCallum SJ and Sandra Chaoul shared fascinating insights...

Vatican Dicasteries, Episcopal Conferences, relating to other churches and religions, the role of the Pope and more Welcome the School for Synodality’s second podcast series: Reading the Final Document Together. Avril Baigent had a great conversation with our guest speaker Professor Cathy Clifford, on the fourth chapter called ‘The Conversion of Bonds’, talking about how the concept of parishes is...

Discernment, decision-making and accountability Welcome the School for Synodality’s second podcast series: Reading the Final Document Together. In this third of six episodes, Dr Avril Baigent, one of the Directors of School for Synodality and a facilitator in Rome during October 2024, is in conversation with Dr Estela Padilla to discuss the transformative capacity of healthy discernment, seeing ho...

Mission and ministry in a changing world   Welcome the School for Synodality’s second podcast series: Reading the Final Document Together. In this second of six episodes, Dr Avril Baigent, one of the Directors of School for Synodality and a facilitator in Rome during October 2024, is in conversation with  Professor Anna Rowlands to discuss how in rediscovering our true nature and purpose, we can s...

Understanding the theological roots of what we are about  Welcome the School for Synodality’s second podcast series: Reading the Final Document Together. The Final Document was written by the 350 delegates of the16th ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, a month-long meeting in October 2024 of cardinals, bishops, Religious and lay men and women from around the world. It was the culmin...

The final episode of our Practising Synodality Podcast Series explores ‘Becoming a Synodal Community’. Avril Baigent hosts with guest Professor Anna Rowlands, Office for Synod, Vatican and Durham University. The School for Synodality is an organisation supporting the synodal conversion of the Catholic Church. Through conversations, resources and programmes, we aim to enable an openness to the Holy...

The seventh episode of our Practising Synodality Podcast Series explores ‘A European Perspective'. Avril Baigent hosts with guest Deacon Geert De Cubber, episcopal delegate for catechesis, youth and families in the Diocese of Gent, Belgium. The School for Synodality is an organisation supporting the synodal conversion of the Catholic Church. Through conversations, resources and programmes, we aim...

The sixth episode of our Practising Synodality Podcast Series explores ‘Group Discernment’. Avril Baigent hosts with guest Mauricio Lopez, Executive Secretary of CEAMA (Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon). The School for Synodality is an organisation supporting the synodal conversion of the Catholic Church. Through conversations, resources and programmes, we aim to enable an openness to the Holy S...

The fifth episode of our Practising Synodality Podcast Series explores ‘The Art of Listening - hearing all the voices'. Avril Baigent hosts with guest Sr Ngozie, Director of the Centre for Women Studies and Intervention in Nigeria. Sr Ngozie has worked with CAFOD for many years, and this podcast episode is held in partnership with them. The School for Synodality is an organisation supporting the s...

The fourth episode of our Practising Synodality Podcast Series explores ‘Discerning the Signs of the Times’. Avril Baigent hosts with guest Sarah Adams, from the Diocese of Clifton. The School for Synodality is an organisation supporting the synodal conversion of the Catholic Church. Through conversations, resources and programmes, we aim to enable an openness to the Holy Spirit with listening, sh...

The third of our Practising Synodality Podcast Series explores to topic ‘Best and Worse Practices’. Dr Avril Baigent in conversation with guests Fr Matthew Nunes and Fr Phillip Inch, co-moderators of the Archdiocese of Liverpool Synod. The School for Synodality is an organisation supporting the synodal conversion of the Catholic Church. Through conversations, resources and programmes, we aim to en...

The second episode of our Practising Synodality Podcast Series looks at 'thinking about power and trust'. Avril Baigent hosts with guests Ciaran Beary, a facilitation and leadership consultant including for the UN, and Fr Kevin O'Driscoll, at the Diocese of Northampton. The School for Synodality is an organisation supporting the synodal conversion of the Catholic Church. Through conversations, res...

What is Synodality? Join us in the first of our 2023 Practising Synodality Podcast Series as Dr Avril Baigent, Director of the School for Synodality speaks with Dr Jessie Rogers, Dean of Faculty of Theology, St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth. The School for Synodality is an organisation supporting the synodal conversion of the Catholic Church. Through conversations, resources and progra...