“Synodality helps us a lot because it is the communities that tell us how to be a church, rather than a bishop telling the people how to be church,” Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner of Manaus, Brazil, said.

Two Vatican trials are coming to a head this week and both underscore Pope Francis’ power as an absolute monarch and the legal, financial and reputational problems that can arise when he wields it.

The al-Ahli Arab hospital was a sanctuary, a holy place, a home to hundreds of Palestinians; it's now in ruins as a result of the ongoing war in Gaza.

After a heartrending testimony in the synod hall, Father Timothy Radcliffe said: “I hope it changed us.”

A Homily for the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein

A Reflection for the Feast of St. Luke, Evangelist, by Ricardo da Silva, S.J.