This synod, more than any other, is built on the premise that realities are greater than ideas.

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.

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.

The Synod on Synodality has the potential to be the church’s most extraordinary event since Vatican II. Will the synod's critics prevail?

The task of becoming a truly synodal church will demand sacrifices from all the baptized, writes Zac Davis.

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.