When the Vatican released the working document for the synod on synodality on June 20, many Catholics, including those calling for church reform, expressed hope that the next steps toward the October ...

Theologian John Cavadini, director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, penned an important article about the synthesis document that summed up the deliberations ...

(RNS) — I confess I fell asleep several times reading the new working document for the Synod on Synodality, which will have its second session this October. The working document, or Instrumentum ...

FRANKFURT, Germany — After bishops blocked a vote demanding changes to the Church’s teaching on sexuality at the German Synodal Way, organizers on Friday voiced their displeasure with the outcome and ...

The need to rebuild trust in the wake of abuse scandals, the need to be inclusive and welcoming while faithful to Church teaching, and the need to approach the synodal process as “a missionary ...

The working document on the Synod on synodality, released by the Vatican on June 20, reflects an attempt to balance between two currents of this synodal process. On the one hand, there is the will to ...

The Catholic Church in Asia recently turned to artificial intelligence to create a document for use by the wider Church in order that its members might more closely "walk together." The Vatican’s ...

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, relator general of the synod on synodality, speaks during a news conference at the Vatican March 14, 2024, about study groups authorized by Pope Francis to examine ...

A program for a Mass opening the synod process in the Diocese of Camden, N.J., is seen at St. Agnes Church of Our Lady of Hope Parish in Blackwood, N.J., Oct. 17, 2021. (Credit: Dave ...