As conclave begins, reform groups prepare for Pope Francis’s successor

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[FutureChurch Executive Director, Russ] Petrus credited reform-minded Catholics with “persevering and modeling synodality in the world” in the decades leading up to Francis’s synod. Regardless of the outcome of the conclave, the reform community “would continue to be the torchbearers” for a synodal church, he said.

Asked how he might communicate the importance of synodality to the cardinals assembling at the conclave, Petrus said that he would urge them to “carry the final documents of the synodal assemblies with them, and let those voices speak to their hearts and minds.”