“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.
Synod on Synodality
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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.
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The lay woman bringing Catholic social teaching to the heart of the Vatican
Emilce Cuda, the highest ranking lay woman working in the Vatican, joins “Jesuitical” to explain how “el pueblo”—ordinary, working class people—are at the forefront of a burgeoning synodal church.
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On the Ground in Rome: Reporting on the synod—and tuning out the noise
The Synod on Synodality has the potential to be the church’s most extraordinary event since Vatican II. Will the synod’s critics prevail?
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Synod Diary: A synodal church requires sacrifice
The task of becoming a truly synodal church will demand sacrifices from all the baptized, writes Zac Davis.
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Meet the lay woman who led the U.S. synod process
In this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle interviews Julia McStravog, a senior advisor on the Synod on Synodality at the U.S.C.C.B., to get an inside look into how the U.S. church organized itself to carry out the national and continental phases of the synod, and how those phases inform the ongoing meeting in Rome.