There is a challenge to sustain the encounter and the participative
nature of synodality, grounded in respectful listening, for long
enough to arrive at the point where specific decisions are
discerned to be necessary, given the risk that such decision
points are inevitably difficult for those of a contrary disposition.
[Conclusion, Synthesis of the Consultation for the Irish Diocesan
Stage of the Universal Synod, 2022.]
Have we arrived at the kind of decision point hinted at in this
quotation from the National Synthesis Document?