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JesuiticalOctober 28, 2024
Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, N.J., records a message for his archdiocese Oct. 18, 2024, outside the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican where members of the Synod of Bishops meet. (CNS photo/Robert Duncan)

At the end of the second session of the Synod on Synodality, Jesuitical’s co-host Zac Davis and producer Sebastian Gomes spoke with Cardinal Joseph Tobin, the archbishop of Newark, about the synod’s final document, which kept open the question of women’s access to the diaconate. The cardinal also spoke to the urgent need for initiating processes of communal decision-taking in parishes and for greater accountability to synodality among U.S. bishops.

Thank you for following Jesuitical’s coverage of the Synod on Synodality. It was sponsored in part by the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University.

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