Encouraging greater "synodal" practices in the Catholic Church should help the church find a greater balance between the ...

Almost half of the Catholic bishops in existence do not have a church, meaning that they don’t celebrate funerals, oversee ...

These assumptions are planted like seeds and repeated just often enough by a handful of synod delegates, lobby groups, the ...

The second half of the synod brings with it concerns with synod methodology and the future of ordained ministry. On this ...

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As the pope’s Synod of Bishops on Synodality breaches the halfway point, participants are now debating the “doctrinal ...

Decentralizing doctrinal authority, or deciding certain doctrinal questions at local levels rather than universally, has been ...

At the current synod, whose purpose is to address “communion, participation, and mission” in the church, women’s role is on ...

Prayer groups are sponsoring an online platform through which you can “adopt” a Synod on Synodality member to pray for during ...

The synod’s agenda is not entirely clear to those of us who aren’t sitting at round tables in the St. Pope Paul VI Hall, but ...

Participants in the Synod of Bishops gather with Pope Francis for an ecumenical prayer service Oct. 11, 2024, in the Square ...

As one of 15 bishops on the ordinary council of the Synod of Bishops for the Synod on Synodality, Archbishop Fisher attended ...