This article examines an aspect of synodality that remains under-theorized: the expansion of listening and discernment beyond the church to the entire human community, facilitating attention to the “cries of the poor and the earth” that has the potential to engender forms of communication that current global structures neither facilitate nor allow. Synodality entails a struggle not only against ad intra obstacles such as clericalism and centralization but also against the relationship-constructing power of colonialism and neoliberalism. In this way, Pope Francis’s call for a “synodal Church” can be understood as developing the sacramental character of the church articulated in Lumen Gentium.

本文检视了公会的一个方面仍未被理论化：将聆听和辨别力从教会扩展到整个人类社区，促进对“穷人和大地的呼声”的关注，这有可能产生交流形式当前的全球结构既不促进也不允许。联合组织不仅需要与诸如教权主义和中央集权等内部障碍进行斗争，而且还需要与殖民主义和新自由主义的关系构建力量进行斗争。这样，教皇方济各对“主教会议教会”的呼吁可以被理解为发展在Lumen Gentium中阐明的教会的圣事特征。