”It’s natural that the church is moving toward synodality,” Cardinal Garcias said in an exlcusive interview with Gerard O’Connell. “But when you say ‘the future,’ it means everything depends on synodality. I don’t think it does.”
Synod on Synodality
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Interview: If the synod is done right, it will strengthen bishops’ authority
In a wide-ranging interview, synod member Catherine Clifford discusses seminary formation, the authority of bishops and what’s needed to move beyond the ‘divergences’ that emerged at the synod.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
15 hidden gems in the Synod report that could lead to major church reforms
We can miss important opportunities for church reform if we only focus on the hot-button issues.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Can the entire Catholic Church be run like a religious order? Should it?
The Synod on Synodality looks toward the church’s great religious institutes for what synodality within the universal church may look like. But are those the right models?
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Father James Martin: The good (and bad) spirits I experienced at the synod
My experience of the synod was far more than the thrill of sitting with church leaders from around the world. It was also a spiritual journey.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Hong Kong’s Jesuit cardinal Stephen Chow: ‘The pope truly cares about China.’
Cardinal Stephen Chow said officials in China “appreciate that Pope Francis appreciates them” in this exclusive interview with America’s Vatican correspondent.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Does the synod threaten bishops’ authority?
Catherine Clifford, an ecclesiologist and North American voting member in the Synod on Synodality, joins Colleen Dulle, the host of “Inside the Vatican,” in Rome to discuss the synod’s implications for church structures and hierarchy.
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The synod began amid war and distrust. The first session has ended, but the real work remains.
Amid conflict and mistrust, the goal of the Synod on Synodality—to teach us to “walk together”—is still a work in progress.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal McElroy: There should never again be a synod without lay people as voting members
“We can’t go backward,” Cardinal Robert McElroy told America’s Vatican correspondent Gerard O‘Connell at the end of the first session of the Synod on Synodality.
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Father James Martin: What happened at the Synod on Synodality
The most synodal moments for me were when I spoke with people with whom I disagreed, sometimes dramatically.