Weekly News Roudup October 19, 2023

Our stories this week include: (1) the latest news from the Synod on Synodality general assembly in Rome, including one priest-participant's assertion that the Synod "is the continuation of Vatican II"; (2) the Pope's reception of two unlikely visitors (Whoopi Goldberg and Sister Jeannine Gramick, a notorious and censured LGBT activist); (3) the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas and the question of who should occupy and control the Holy Land; and (4) an Italian cardinal's comment to a Spanish news outlet that the five cardinals' dubia "hurt" Francis.