If it can avoid ‘self-referentiality,’ Bishop Kevin Rhoades believes that the Church’s ongoing synodal process can contribute to the communion needed to evangelize the world. Bishop Kevin Rhoades of ...

COMMENTARY: My very real hope is that the engagement of both the pastoral and properly theological dimensions of this issue of inclusivity will be a key work of the synod. Bishop Robert Barron speaks ...

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 ...

Speaking to the Synod on Synodality on Monday, an Eastern Orthodox bishop said the definition of synodality of the October assembly “differs greatly” from the Orthodox understanding. Metropolitan Job ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has decided to give women the right to vote at an upcoming meeting of bishops, an historic reform that reflects his hopes to give women greater decision-making ...

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 ...

The assembly includes bishops from all over the world and takes years to prepare for. For the first time, an upcoming synod will allow women and laypeople to vote. By Gaia Pianigiani The Synod of ...