The synod of bishops on the family is now gathering steam.
Gerard O’Connell
Gerard O’Connell is America’s senior Vatican correspondent and author of The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Story of the Conclave That Changed History. He has been covering the Vatican since 1985.
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Pope Francis Seeks To Open Church Doors to All
‘A church with closed doors betrays herself and her mission, and, instead of being a bridge, becomes a roadblock,” Pope Francis said in his homily during a concelebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct. 4, as he opened the meeting of the Synod of Bishops on the family.Francis i
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Pope to Synod Fathers: Don’t give in to the conspiracy theory
Pope Francis asked the Synod Fathers to engage in “a profound discernment to seek to understand what the Lord wants of his Church.”
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Pope: This Synod on the Family must be seen as a continuation of 2014 synod.
Pope Francis reassured the synod fathers that the Catholic doctrine on marriage had not been put into question at the Extraordinary Synod in 2014 and so retains its full validity.
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Differences Emerge Immediately at the Synod on the Family
The Hungarian cardinal, Peter Erdo, is playing a crucial role in the synod on the family, and now a somewhat controversial one.
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Pope tells synod fathers to clothe themselves in courage, humility and prayer
Francis says synod is not a ‘talk shop’ or conference but ‘a protected space where the church experiences that action of the Holy Spirit.’
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Pope to Synod: The church must be a bridge, not a roadblock
Pope Francis analyzed the real and often dramatic situation of people in today’s globalized world, marked by “a growing loneliness and vulnerability,” the image of which is “the family.”
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Pope, at prayer vigil for synod, hopes for rediscovery of a church that ‘can unite compassion with justice’
Pope Francis will open the synod tomorrow morning, Oct. 4, with a concelebrated mass in St Peter’s Basilica attended by 270 synod fathers from all continents.
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Vatican theologian declares he’s gay and has a partner
The Vatican has denounced as ldquo very serious and irresponsible rdquo the decision by Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa an official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith CDF to announce publicly on the eve of the synod of bishops on the family that he is homosexual and has a partner
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In Cuba, Pope Urges Young to Be Signs of Hope
Minutes after arriving in Cuba on Sept. 19, Pope Francis hailed “the process of normalizing relations between the two peoples of Cuba and the United States” after more than 50 years of estrangement as “a sign of the victory of the culture of encounter and dialogue” that