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Synod on Synodality
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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Podcast: The French Dominican bringing Middle East Catholics’ concerns to Rome
Today on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley talk with Olivier Poquillon, O.P., who oversaw the reconstruction of the Catholic Church in Mosul, Iraq, destroyed by ISIS 2014.
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Podcast: As discussion turns to women deacons, the synod ‘gets interesting’
On “Inside the Vatican, host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell sit down in Rome to cover the second week of the synod, which covered contentious issues in the church, such as the inclusion of L.G.B.T. people and women deacons.
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Synod Diary: What story would you tell at the synod?
This synod, more than any other, is built on the premise that realities are greater than ideas.
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Synod Diary: Reading the Pact of the Catacombs at the Synod
Yesterday, the participants in the Synod on Synodality made a pilgrimage through the St. Sebastian catacombs, the burial place of at least three early Christian martyrs.