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Spirituality of Communion
A Synodal Encounter with Jesus

This pastoral-theological work describes, analyses, and clarifies with examples the relationship between Ignatian discernment (personal and communal) to the synodal pathway that Pope Francis has retrieved and updated to advance the Catholic Church’s way of proceeding globally and locally from top down to bottom up.

“Just when the Church seeks to ‘become synodal,’ A Spirituality of Communion shows us what synodality is, why it matters now, and where it will take us if we let it. With insight and foresight, theological acuity, and a deep grasp of the Spirit’s call to conversion in our ‘change of era,’ Fr. Deck gives us a passionate account of synodality as the gift God has given us to navigate to a better future.”
—Austen Ivereigh, Pope Francis biographer and expert at the Synod on Synodality

“Spirituality of Communion offers inspiring insights about Pope Francis since the first stages of his pontificate. It adds another essential dimension to Deck’s analysis, calling readers to embrace synodality as a pathway of discipleship that Pope Francis has opened to the Church.”
—Timothy Matovina, University of Notre Dame

Allan Figueroa Deck, SJ, has hands-on leadership pastoral experience at parish, diocesan, regional, and national levels. He has authored or edited nine books and more than seventy chapters and scholarly articles in English and Spanish on Hispanic ministry, pastoral theology, Catholic Social Teaching, faith and culture, and Ignatian spirituality.

ISBN: 978-08091-5676-4

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