The Vatican says the confidentiality requirement exists ‘in order to guarantee the freedom of expression of each and all regarding their thoughts and to ensure the serenity of the discernment in ...
COMMENTARY: Definitions of synodality have finally been offered in the synod’s final report, including everything and leaving nothing out. Pope Francis addresses those in attendance at the closing ...
The archbishop of Durango, Mexico, Faustino Armendáriz, commented that “it’s a challenge to seek the will of God” at the Synod on Synodality, where he is a participating member. The synod is taking ...
NEW YORK – When it was announced on Oct. 16 that Bishop William McGrattan of Calgary, Alberta, was elected the next president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, he was in Rome ...
Catholics in Asia and Africa have already been leading the way with synodality, two members of the Synod of Bishops on synodality said. Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Bamenda, Cameroon, told ...
Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis and Cardinal Kevin Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, pose for a photo during a ...
Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, attends a Vatican news conference in this Oct. 26, 2015, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) India’s Cardinal Oswald Gracias believes that synodality is the ...
I confess I fell asleep several times reading the new working document for the synod on synodality, which will have its second session this October. The working document, or instrumentum laboris as it ...
“Synodality” is a major theme of the Francis pontificate, but what the term means in its “Franciscan” register is not terribly clear. Vatican statements tend to talk around the meaning of the term, ...
José Miguel Gómez Rodríguez, the archbishop of Manizales in Colombia, shared his experience at the Synod of Synodality taking place this month at the Vatican, commenting on what this assembly can ...
(RNS) — Even as some Catholics look at the synod with skepticism, others don’t know what it means or haven’t heard of it at all. Pope Francis is tasking parish priests with changing that. VATICAN CITY ...
Kevin Liston argues that the Church's talk of synodality has become a sideshow of boredom. To survive, it must move beyond ...