Synodal virtues: valuing a sense of agency 

Thomas O’Loughlin is a presbyter of the Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton and professor-emeritus of historical theology at the University of Nottingham (UK). His latest book is Eating Together, Becoming One: Taking Up Pope Francis’s Call to Theologians (Liturgical Press, 2019). He writes here about what will engage all the baptized in synodality. Reprinted with permission from La Croix International, April 13, 2022. international.la-croix.com