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

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

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Encouraging greater "synodal" practices in the Catholic Church should help the church find a greater balance between 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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Decentralizing doctrinal authority, or deciding certain doctrinal questions at local levels rather than universally, has been ...

The specific issue of the doctrinal competence of bishops’ conferences, and what that might look like concretely, “got a lot ...

As the yearslong synod on synodality inches toward its Oct. 27 conclusion, the resistance has effectively gone silent, a ...

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

If members of the Synod of Bishops are serious about sharing their experience of "synodality" with all members of the ...

Before the synodal process began in 2021, "We were a church on a mission, now we are a synodal church on a mission," Cardinal ...