The papal exhortations which followed the synods up until the time of Pope Francis, were often outstanding. To call them, or the synods which prompted them, rigid and boring is extraordinarily unhelpful and, in my opinion, looking at the participants and outcomes, untrue. Catechesi Tradendae and Evangelii Nuntiandi for exmple, remain still the best documents produced on their subjects.
The papal exhortations which followed the synods up until the time of Pope Francis, were often outstanding. To call them, or the synods which prompted them, rigid and boring is extraordinarily unhelpful and, in my opinion, looking at the participants and outcomes, untrue. Catechesi Tradendae and Evangelii Nuntiandi for exmple, remain still the best documents produced on their subjects.