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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Alas, to many, a Synod on Synodality sounds like having a “meeting on meeting” to learn how to listen and discern. Such meetings drive practical Americans crazy because nothing gets done.

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.

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 ...