This special deep dive episode recaps the 2024 Vatican meeting of the Synod on Synodality, featuring interviews with five synod delegates about the tensions and unexpected breakthroughs in the Synod hall—and outside it.
Synod on Synodality
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal ‘Ambo’ David: ‘We’re not Catholic if we believe that God wants to save only Catholics’
“I think the synod is Francis’ way of concretizing his challenge to get [us] out of self-referentiality in the church, that we don’t just stick to our churchy language and deal only with fellow Catholics,” Cardinal David tells ‘America.’
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Cardinal McElroy, DC’s new archbishop, wants a church of ‘radical inclusion’
In 2023, “Jesuitical” hosts Zac Davis and Ashley McKinless spoke with Cardinal Robert McElroy about his call for a church of “radical inclusion.” This week, Cardinal McElroy was named the new archbishop of Washington, D.C.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
A Catholic Canadian on Trump’s threat to make his homeland the 51st U.S. state
Canada. The true north, strong and…free? Not if President-elect Donald J. Trump has anything to say about it. And he does.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Women and LGBTQ Catholics are paying the price for church unity
If we are to be a synodal church, are all of us ready to hear and honestly reckon with the sacrifice being asked of women and L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics?
Posted inFaith, News
Two women join Vatican synod planning council for first time
For the first time, women will serve on the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod.
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Pope Francis explains magisterial weight of synod final document
On this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell investigate Pope Francis’ new letter on the final synod document.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Chow: What the synod means for the church in Hong Kong and China
“In Hong Kong, we have our wounds that we need to heal,” Cardinal Stephen Chow, S.J., the bishop of Hong Kong, told America’s Vatican correspondent in this exclusive interview.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
A ‘fourth order’ for women deacons in the Catholic Church? Reflecting on the possibility
The possibility of a “fourth order” of deaconess in the Catholic Church has become part of the conversation around women deacons. But is it the right response?
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Archbishop Scicluna: How synodality will change the Roman Curia
“The Roman Curia can no longer say, ‘The law is set here, and it is to be obeyed out there,’” Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta told America’s Vatican correspondent in this exclusive interview.