In March 2025, synod gatherings took place across the 5 pastoral areas of the Archdiocese, along with a 6th youth synod gathering. Clergy, chairs of Pastoral Councils, Paris Synod Animators, and pastoral staff were invited, with around 300 people from the Diocese present at the gatherings. The National Synod Team provided 17 topics for discussion that had emerged from the first synod gatherings in 2022. The aim of the spring gatherings was to prioritise the topics that should be a focus from the Pre-National Synod gatherings, beginning in October 2025. The ‘Conversations in the Spirit’ method was used to discern on 3 aspects: what the 3 priorities are out of the list of 17 topics? where there were noticable differences? and what are the priorities that the Holy Spirit is prompting us to recommend to the Pre-Synodal Assembly in October 2025?
The Dublin Diocesan Report and Top 10 Takeaways can be found at https://dublindiocese.ie/synod2025/.