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 ...

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.

Bishop Luis Marín de San Martín is one of the key figures of the Synod on Synodality. Pope Francis appointed him undersecretary of the event, which the Spanish prelate says he has experienced as ...

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 ...

The Synod on Synodality teaches that the bishops take the center state and exercise the authority bestowed by Christ, the fullness of Holy Priesthood, in collegiality. However, the synodal path is ...

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 ...

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 ...