The reclusive grandfather of the Catholic blogosphere posted this item to his X (formerly Twitter) feed, noting, “[The] Pope’s acrostic footnote to close his 1st Synod is back to save the day.”
As Rocco noted in 2015, summarizing the final document of the pope’s first Synod:
The pontiff gave no indication of his intended course of action on the Synod’s consensus in a remarkably blunt concluding address to the body, a magisterial instruction which – in the style of only his most significant speeches – was dotted by footnotes, including a sweeping, loaded message that’s almost a mini-catechism in itself, yet one which wasn’t delivered in the Aula, but cleverly lobbed by stealth in the closing citation.
Take a look at what he’s talking about, from the footnote:
