Seven priorities emerged from the Irish bishops’ Pre-Synodal Assembly meetings, drawing upon a series of gatherings held ...

Pope Leo XIV spoke about synodality during the jubilee of synodal teams and participatory bodies Oct. 24-26, part of the ...

As the Irish Catholic Church glances into the future, may it do so with courage, “without remaining comfortably stuck in the ...

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

The synod on synodality, a three-year process of praying, listening and engaging in dialogue, inaugurated by Pope Francis in October 2021 to chart a path for our post-modern era, registered a ...

As the official synodal process enters its fourth year, the Vatican recently released the document, the instrumentum laboris, to guide discussions for the October 2024 synod. The document was ...

All eyes at the Ergife were on the board. There were 809 voters, and in the end, the basic document with which the pastoral ...

Pope Francis has written the preface to the book “Women and Ministries in the Synodal Church,” authored by three theologians and two cardinals who participated in the meeting of the Council of ...

Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Abuja, Nigeria, speaks during a forum addressing international religious freedom issues at the United Nations in New York March 1, 2019. (Credit: Gregory A. Shemitz/CNS.

The Synodal Way — “Synodaler Weg,” sometimes translated as Synodal Path — is not a synod but a highly controversial event designed to create “pressure” on the Church, as one founder has admitted.

Catholic sisters hoping that the new pope would continue Pope Francis’ efforts to make the church less clerical and more inclusive of lay people may have had that prayer answered with the selection of ...

Cardinal Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, reflects for Vatican News on Pope Leo XIV's first Apostolic Exhortation. In his ...