VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Francis, the Jesuit pope, chose a Dominican, Timothy Radcliffe, to set the tone for his Synod on Synodality, which has been under attack by reactionaries in the church.

Pope Francis was a Jesuit. And we know Dominicans and Franciscans. We all have a particular charism where we take inspiration from, in our case, from Augustine, who in the late 300s, early 400s ...