20th Annual Prophetic Voices Lecture

Massimo Faggioli
Villanova University

"The governance of the Church is no longer prophetic, but apostolic,” wrote Yves Congar in True and False Reform in the Church (1950, 1968). And he continued: "The only valid prophecy in the church is in the service of the church’s apostolicity.” The synodal process is a development of an ancient theological and ecclesiological tradition, but also a response to the crisis of authority and legitimacy of the bishops and of the institutional Church. The lecture will address some of the challenges of thinking about prophecy for a Catholic Church re-learning synodality.