At the first meeting of the full assembly of the Synod on Synodality on Wednesday, Pope Francis said a bishop’s ministry should include cooperation with laypeople and that the synod will need to ...

‘What unites us in faith, for example, the common Eucharist, is more than what separates us,’ Bishop Stefan Oster told the Register. ‘How should we not be able to have good conversations with each ...

Even the bishops had to stand in line and surrender their passports. They lined up alongside theologians, laity and the media to procure the simultaneous translation headsets for the panel discussion ...

VATICAN: Pope Leo XIV welcomed some two thousand members of synodal teams and participatory bodies (presbyteral councils, ...

Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 21 named Bishop Nicholas Hudson, an auxiliary bishop of Westminster, as the next bishop of Plymouth, ...

The two bishops, who were originally considered voting members of the 16th Ordinary Synod of Bishops, will no longer be present in the Paul VI Hall for the final vote on the synthesis document at the ...

Bishops process into St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 29, 2023, for a Mass marking the conclusion of the first session of the Synod of Bishops on synodality. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) The ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Recognizing the doctrinal authority of bishops’ conferences does not mean allowing them to reject the teaching authority of the pope, but rather to apply church teaching to their ...

Bishop Robert Barron is asking Catholics to "take the pope at his word" that the Vatican's upcoming "Synod on Synodality" is an advisory council, "not a democratic process" to change doctrine. The ...

Bishop Joseph Yang Yongqiang of Hangzhou shakes hands with Pope Francis during the October 2024 Synod of Bishops on Synodality at the Vatican. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – Two bishops from ...

People ask me what I think is going to happen at the first assembly of the two-part Synod of Bishops in Rome this October. I have long had serious reservations about the whole process. My crystal ball ...

While some media reported a move at the Synod of Bishops to allow every national bishops' conference to make Catholic doctrine, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, said that was not ...