Most chose option 8: biting sarcasm.I

IIf you truly are being held captive in the HR Department,   blink twice, we will send in a rescue team," wrote one of the ffirst people to respond.

"If I wanted corporate speak I'd go to my job on Sundays,"   another person said.

"Sounds like something that comes out of the Calm app, not   Catholicism. Thanks, I will skip," wrote another.

"Who wrote this spiritual guidance, Nabisco Corp?"   someone wanted to know.

"Is this entire synod being run by human resources interns?"   another wrote.

"We're not a Fortune 500 company, we are literally the body   of Christ."

 And on, and on, it went. You get the idea.

 No one said gathering constructive input from the world's 1   billion Catholics was going to be easy. And with a name like "the Synod on Synodality," even the best minds on Madison   Avenue are going to have their work cut out for them.

 
Still, this clearly was not the sort of dialogue the USCCB   had in mind. A USCCB spokesperson did not immediately r espond Tuesday morning to an email seeking comment about t the tweet.

 The Synod of Synodality is a global, two-year consultative process of "listening and dialogue" that began in October 2021. The opening of the process is a diocesan phase expected to last until August 2022. The Vatican has asked all dioceses to participate, hold consultations, and collect feedback on specific questions laid out in synod documents.

A synod is a meeting of bishops that aims to discuss a topic of theological or pastoral significance, in order to prepare a document of advice or counsel to the pope. At the end of the current process, a synod of bishops is scheduled to take place in Rome in October 2023 to produce a final document.