People want to know that the issues they raised over the past few years in listening sessions in their parishes and dioceses are being taken seriously.

The ghost of Pistoia is by now quite experienced at haunting Catholic memories.

In this bonus episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle interviews Inés San Martín, the former Rome bureau chief of Crux and current vice president of marketing and communications at the Vatican's U.S. missionary fundraising organ.

If you regret not taking part in your local synod, do not despair.

You either control the narrative, or the narrative is controlled by anyone who grabs the media’s attention.

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.