An unanticipated fruit of the Second Vatican Council is experience of fragmentation within Global Catholicism over recent decades. Though synodality is about unity, the forms it has taken around the world have been very different. Yet bringing the question of synodality to the Synod is itself a landmark process, all the more since the Synod of Bishops was expressly created by Paul VI to carry forward the work of the Council. Further, Pope Francis extended the Synod to two sessions over two years, reminiscent of the multiple sessions of the Second Vatican Council sixty years earlier. This raises important questions. How might the “Synod on Synodality” mark a move toward the contemporary reception of the Second Vatican Council? How can the Synod structure authentically advance the Council? What can we learn through comparative study of the different expressions of synodality and the synodal process within Global Catholicism? What are the underlying sources of tension, theological innovations, and new possibilities suggested by these developments? What tensions exist between the various synodal processes? How might those local synodal processes developed between 2021 and 2022 develop further in the Synod during 2023 and 2024? In short, what are the long-term prospects for synodality within Global Catholicism?Chair:Massimo Faggioli (Villanova University) Speakers:Jens Van Rompaey (KU Leuven), Still invisible fruits of synodality: tentative steps forward from a Belgian perspectiveDirk Ansorge (Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule “Sankt Georgen”), “Wrong Track” or “Contribution to the Global Church”? German Experiences of Synodality on the “Synoldal Path”Serena Noceti (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose / Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Centrale), Partnership in a Participatory Church. Women’s Subjectivity in the Amazonian SynodStefan Gigacz (Australian Cardijn Institute), Lay Movements and a Synodal ChurchStefan Silber (University of Vechta), Synodality as a Nota Ecclesiae. Lessons from the Synod for Amazonia Discussant: Bryan Froehle (Palm Beach Atlantic University)