When one stayed up late the night before reading tweets about the Abomination of Desolation and asteroids hitting Rome, a feeling of relief could not be helped.
Paolo Ruffini, the prefect for the dicastery for Communications, called it an act of bravado, 'a stunt' and a gesture that goes against the 'spirit of dialogue'
We were told that Pope Francis worried that there would be two synods: the synod of the hall and the synod of the media. My perception is that there are indeed two synods, but that they are the synod on the well-being of the indigenous people and the synod on the implementation of fashionable doctrinal/pastoral ideas.