People want to know that the issues they raised over the past few years in listening sessions in their parishes and dioceses are being taken seriously.
Synod on Synodality
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
What a failed 18th-century synod—and a talking point for Archbishop Viganò—can teach us about synodality
The ghost of Pistoia is by now quite experienced at haunting Catholic memories.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: A synod insider on evangelization and World Mission Sunday
In this bonus episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle interviews Inés San Martín, the former Rome bureau chief of Crux and current vice president of marketing and communications at the Vatican’s U.S. missionary fundraising organ.
Posted inFaith, Synod Diary
Synod Diary: It’s not too late to take part in the synod
If you regret not taking part in your local synod, do not despair.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
What Pope Francis forgot about the media: You either feed the beast or the beast eats you
You either control the narrative, or the narrative is controlled by anyone who grabs the media’s attention.
Posted inFaith, News
Synod assembly to issue ‘Letter to the People of God’ at session’s end
The letter, the drafting of which was approved by the synod assembly, will be discussed both during small group working sessions and among the entire assembly Oct. 23.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Catholic influencers or digital missionaries? Bringing the synod to the internet
Today on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley talk with José Manuel de Urquidi is a voting member at the synod whose advocacy for evangelizing—or rather listening—in digital spaces is turning heads.
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Podcast: Should synod discussions be secret?
In this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle interviews John Thavis, author of “The Vatican Diaries” and “The Vatican Prophecies,” about how synods and their guidelines around secrecy have evolved over time.
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Synod cardinal from Brazil: In the Amazon ‘everyone votes, except the bishop’
“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.
Posted inFaith, Synod Diary
Synod Diary: Will the synod change its members?
After a heartrending testimony in the synod hall, Father Timothy Radcliffe said: “I hope it changed us.”