I was thinking of something Pope Francis said a few years ago when the Vatican released “Pathways for the Implementation ...

Local churches and bishops worldwide will be instrumental in helping implement the proposals and foster the spirit of the ...

One of the most highly-watched study groups is on ministries in the Church, specifically the question of a female diaconate.

The Vatican’s synod office said the final reports from the Synod on Synodality study groups – including opinions on women ...

Sister Nathalie Becquart, Undersecretary of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, speaks to Vatican News about the ...

On Monday, the Synod of Bishops will publish the final synodal document on how local churches can implement the Synod's ...

Pope Leo added that Francis promoted this concept in the various synodal assemblies that took place during his pontificate, ...

Synodality isn’t “a chapter in an ecclesiology textbook” or a “fad or a slogan to be bandied about in our meetings,” the pope has emphasized. Tuesday, July 08, 2025.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Catholic clergy and laypeople will gather at the Vatican Oct. 4-29 for a synod, or summit of bishops and lay people, to discuss synodality, with an emphasis on communion ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After five days of meetings and an audience with Pope Francis in the past week (April 28-May 2), more than 200 parish priests from around the world are preparing to return ...

With the calling of a worldwide synod on synodality, Pope Francis set in motion the most extensive consultative process the world has ever seen. In recent months, each diocese produced a report on ...

As a way of being church, synodality might be thought of as collegiality resurrected, but without all the baggage that encumbered collegiality over the years following Vatican II, writes Fr ...