The Guardian view on the pope's reform project: the world's largest Christian body needs to change | Editorial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

82% : In an important new book entitled The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, the journalist and author Tim Alberta charts the extraordinary success of Donald Trump in courting white evangelicals with an apocalyptic version of "blood and soil Christian nationalism".
61% : Outside the synodal process, papal approval this month for blessings for same-sex couples was a significant step forwards.
57% : But as Anglicans have discovered about same-sex marriage, translating that kind of tolerant vision into meaningful reform is a challenge.
50% : But the awkwardly named synod on synodality has been treated as an internal affair, and received modest coverage in the non-religious media.

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