ACCUSATIONS of Vatican, if not papal, deception have erupted over a leaked 2021 report compiled — but not disclosed — by 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, ...

On Saturday, Pope Francis made the unprecedented decision to accept the final document from the Synod of Synodality as authoritative Church teaching.. The 52-page text includes a theological ...

Synodality, then, might be thought of as collegiality resurrected, but without all the baggage that encumbers collegiality. The difference is literally semantic: Synod has a Greek root, collegial ...

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. Sunday, June 29, 2025.

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 ...

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 ...

What synodality is not. While I have stressed above the blessings of synodality—a spiritual practice of authentic discernment—it is perhaps helpful also to note what synodality is not.

While most of us are not being led or driven into a literal desert this Lent, I do see something of a parallel for the whole church as we continue to engage in the global process of synodality.The ...

The synod text calls synodality it a remedy for clericalism - which some have blamed for the sexual abuse crisis – and a blueprint for creating a more "participatory and co-responsible" Church.

Almost four years after Pope Francis opened the Catholic Church's path toward synodality -- a term many in the church had never heard before -- his successor has thrown his suppo ...