The Synod on Synodality is good news for all the baptized, and in particular, it is good news for women.
Synod on Synodality
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
In the church’s messy disagreements, the Holy Spirit is at work. But what does that mean?
From the very beginning, the church reaches decisions that are complicated, human, messy, often ad hoc—this is what the Holy Spirit protecting and guiding the church looks like.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Could you explain what the Synod on Synodality is to a 10-year-old? If not, we need to simplify some things.
I’m surprised to find that it’s my confusion about the synodal process that has grown more than my enthusiasm for what is being discussed.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
Synodality is working: Women getting a vote at the Vatican is the latest proof
Many Catholics like myself who have followed the development of synodality under Pope Francis have been convinced that the decision to open synod voting to non-bishops was all but inevitable.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
For first time in history, Pope Francis gives women right to vote at the synod
For the first time in the history of the synod, Pope Francis has given women the right to vote and has also made a radical change to the membership of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
North America synod document calls the church to welcome women, LGBT people and youth
With church leaders slated to meet in October for the next phase of the Synod on Synodality, the bishops conferences of the U.S. and Canada released a report summarizing the virtual meetings conducted with lay and ordained Catholics earlier this year.
Posted inFaith, News
Sister Nathalie Becquart will be the first woman to vote with bishops at a synod. Her advice for young women? Listen.
Becquart has been traveling the globe in recent weeks as an ambassador for the Synod on Synodality, planned for October in Rome.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Catholicism, authentic communion and the way out of our polarization trap
What is the way out of polarization? And why does that question—along with the now-commonplace observation that society suffers from deepening divisions about everything from gun control to abortion to public funding for religious schools—seem so exhausting?
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Like Vatican II, the synod is a dynamic example of the church in history
In a way, maybe we are living all together as baptized Christians in the synodal process in the same way that the council fathers at Vatican II experienced collegiality in their role as bishops.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
The synod is not an event. It’s a new way of being church.
“Our communion is unsure of itself.” We must “recover a sense of what holds us together.” The stakes are very high for our church, and listening to one another is the first step on a much longer journey.