How have groups and communities in the Church created methods and practices of listening, and what can we learn from this?
The Listening Practices project took a wider look at relevant case studies in ecclesial and social listening in the context of global Catholicism.
The project is gathered a range of multi-scalar studies and reflections on examples of interesting practice, which can be found on this site, and a special open access issue of the Journal of Moral Theology here.
Journal of Moral Tehology Special Issue
The following articles, developed for the Listening Practices in Global Catholicism project, have been published in a special issue of the Journal of Moral Theology. The issue, avaliable to all here, also includes fruits of the roundtable conversations with an introduction and epilogue from our project investigators, who edited the issue.
Listening across the Américas: Base Ecclesial Communities and Relational Organizing as Listening Practices for a Synodal Church by Richard L. Wood
Beyond Synodal Listening: Theological Action Research and Cultures of Conversation by Clare Watkins
French Catholics and Synodality: Spiritual Sensibilities and the Will to Participate or Abstain by Yann Raison du Cleuziou
Doing Theology by Listening to Marginalized Voices? Methodological Elements from Encountering Indigenous Families in a Northern Canadian Community by Julian Paparella
Listening a Synodal Church into Being: Learning Points from the Methodology of the Synod 2021–2024 and the Asian Experience by Christina Kheng
More Than Listening is Needed for Synodality: Observations Based on the Australian Plenary Council and the Church in the New Testament by Peter J. McGregor
Joseph-Albert Cardinal Malula and the “Listening Bishop”: An Institution to (Re)Discover by Ignace Ndongala Maduku
Academic Listening Practices and Synodality: Reflections from a Study of World Youth Days by Charles Mercier
Executive Summary Report
Our participants gathered in Rome in March 2024 to reflect together over three days. These participants included lay academics and practitioners, priest theologians and pastoral practitioners, members of religious congregations, and members of the Curia. Each participant prepared a paper, and we used an amended conversation in the Spirit approach (while also exploring some of this method’s strengths and limitations).
This report has been compiled based on these conversations and their convergences and on the broader pool of reflections and interviews undertaken by project members over the last year.
Audimus Podcast
In conversation with theologians, philosophers, social scientists, and pastoral practitioners from across the world, the Audimus podcast aims to interrogate and enrich our understanding of spiritual listening and synodality at all levels of the global Catholic Church. The podcast is a production of the "Listening Practices Project", which exists to collect and study relevant case studies in ecclesial listening in order to engage further ecclesial reflection on synodality within the Church.
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