Bradford E. Hinze is the Karl Rahner, S.J., Professor of Theology at Fordham University in New York. He has written several books on ecclesiology including Practices of Dialogue in the Roman Catholic Church: Aims and Obstacles, Lessons and Laments (2006), Prophetic Obedience: Ecclesiology for a Dialogical Church (2016), and forthcoming in June 2022 Confronting the Church in Controversy (2022). He has written about decolonizing and synodality in: “Dreams of Synodality, Specters of Constraint,” Louvain Studies 38 (2020) 297-312 and “Decolonizing Everyday Practices: Sites of Struggle in Church and Society,” Presidential Address, Catholic Theological Society of America Proceedings 71 (2016): 46-61.