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

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, ...

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.

Synod on Synodality participants attend a daily session in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Oct. 11, 2023. (Photo by Maria Langarica Correa) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...