Readers will recall the late Cardinal George Pell’s scathing Spectator Australia article, published a day after his passing, which spoke of the ‘toxic nightmare’ of Pope Francis’ Synod on Synodality, which reconvened for its final session in Rome last month.

Pell stated the Synod documents were ‘couched in neo-Marxist jargon’ and that the Synod itself was ‘largely irrelevant to the preaching of the gospel’.