The document was presented to the synod’s 344 voting members in attendance after its drafters attempted to incorporate more than 1,150 proposed amendments into the text. Each paragraph of the text was ...

Synodality is often presented and perceived by many as a cumbersome and complicated process with language and terminology ...

‘LGBTQ+’ terminology and a ‘super synod’ proposal didn’t make the cut, while a proposal for ex-priests to be given a ‘pastoral service’ was added. Holy Mass for the conclusion of the Ordinary General ...

The synod on synodality, which will hold its second and presumably last session in October, needs to set its own agenda, even if that means rejecting the pope's agenda. The synod's first session was ...

After raising expectations with his Synod on Synodality, Pope Francis is punting on a number of controversial issues that the synod process invited lay Catholics to raise. When the next session of the ...

Participants at the Synod with Pope Francis on October 2 (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen LEICESTER, United Kingdom – An English bishop attending the Synod on Synodality says the significance of ...

Pope Francis joins leaders and members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops for a working session in the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall Oct. 23, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) The synod delegates ...

Several lay people groups from all parts of the world have been congregating in Rome several days before the start of the Synod on Synodality and continue to do so, to try to get their voices heard.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — For Pope Francis, the first session of the Synod on Synodality was never about resolving the controversial issues facing the church. Even so, there were those who hoped for ...

As the Synod on Synodality began at the Vatican on Monday, one archbishop said it was Divine Providence it was the Feast of Saint Jerome, a “passionate and difficult man.” The saint, who died in 420, ...

Enter into this ecclesial exercise with confidence,” adding that synodality is learned “by practising it” and that “we learn ...