Learning how to be a synodal church starts with actively listening to the poor
Published on January 30, 2024
“The poor,” Jesus Christ says in Mark’s Gospel, “you will always have with you.”
And indeed, 2,000-plus years later, the Oxford Poverty and Development Initiative — based at England’s University of Oxford — reports “across 110 countries, 1.1 billion out of 6.1 billion people are poor; just over 18% are estimated to live in acute multidimensional poverty.”