Any limitations and rules regarding media access and communications during the upcoming Synod of Bishops are rooted in the “essence” of a synod, said the head of the synod’s communication committee.
Synod on Synodality
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Is opposition to the Synod (and Pope Francis) rooted in a mistrust of the Holy Spirit?
If you trust the Holy Spirit, there’s no reason to fear Pope Francis or the Synod.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Pope Francis’ criticisms of ‘reactionary’ U.S. Catholics are counterproductive
Pope Francis has a problem with American Catholic ideologues. Maybe he’s talking about you.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
Pope Francis-critic Cardinal Burke warns Synod on Synodality could lead to schism
Cardinal Raymond Burke has written in the preface to a new book that Pope Francis is risking confusion and even schism in leading the upcoming Synod on Synodality in Rome.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What I learned from listening to non-practicing Catholics ahead of the Synod
Since this synod was announced in 2021, I have worked with the Seattle chancery as a synod volunteer and responded to the call for dialogue by personally talking with 100 people who were baptized and are now non-practicing.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
What do U.S. Latinos want from the synod? We asked three who will be there.
Latino participation is important: Recent polling data suggests that more than half of U.S. Catholics under 30 are Latino. Overall, Latinos make up more than 40 percent of Catholics in the United States.
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Synodality played a leading role at World Youth Day. Can we keep it going in our church?
By revisiting the various moments of grace from World Youth Day, we might identify some ways we still need to walk together if we are to make effective the pope’s call for a church that is “for all.”
Posted inEditorials, Faith
Four ways the Catholic Church can actually listen more to young people
We must become a church that accompanies its people and is attuned to their hopes, doubts and lived experiences.
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Meet the Black Catholic lay woman representing the U.S. at the synod
“I’m an African American woman in a space that is doing the kind of work that…Christ is calling us to do,” Cynthia Bailey Manns, who will participate in the Synod on Synodality as a voting member in October, said in an interview.
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Vatican and German bishops hold surprise meeting on Synodal Path
Representatives of the Roman Curia and the German bishops’ conference discussed theological and disciplinary issues related to the German church’s Synodal Path in a “positive and constructive climate” during a meeting at the Vatican July 26.