Last month, the Catholic Church launched a two-year listening process, leading up to the Synod of Bishops on 2023.

According to the Vatican, "Pope Francis wants it to be a truly bottom-up process starting from the local up to the national, regional and finally the universal level.  It starts with, and involves, all the faithful at the diocesan levels across the world, promising to listen to all, especially to laypeople."

The Synod will take up Synodality itself, which the Pontiff says is the path which "God expects of the Church of the third millennium”.

Undercovered spoke with Davao Archbishop Romulo Valles, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, for his views on the Synod, on Synodality - and what the Filipino faithful can look forward to, as the local process begins.