Alice McDermott calls O’Brien’s short story “a marvelously constructed tale, Escher-like in its emotional complexity as well as its disorienting realism.”
The summit organizers stated that the initiative needed to facilitate a space that would allow for the formation of alliances across institutions and ideological boundaries.
National Catholic Reporter’s Chris White, a participant at the gathering, described the event as a “synodal laboratory” modeled on the Vatican’s synodal hall.
