The second session of the synod on synodality had fallen into a tranquil lull before an eruption on Oct. 18. NCR has reported about the frustration that boiled over when Cardinal Victor Manuel ...

Catholic sisters hoping that the new pope would continue Pope Francis’ efforts to make the church less clerical and more inclusive of lay people may have had that prayer answered with the selection of ...

Four years after Australia’s Plenary Council promised a more synodal Church, Rome remains silent. The Vatican’s unexplained ...

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne has declared the controversial German Synodal Way process finished in his eyes, expressing skepticism about plans to establish a permanent synodal conference.

(RNS) — The synod’s job is over. Now it is up to the rest of the church to become synodal. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Synod on Synodality, which has been a three-year process of worldwide consultation ...

Here are a few thoughts on where we’ve been so far in the three years since Pope Francis launched the synodal process. Visitors seek respite from the summer heat under Bernini’s colonnade on June 15, ...

In February 2020, my brother Jesuits and I returned home to our novitiate in St. Paul, Minn., after spending 30 days in silence. We had completed the Spiritual Exercises and were to spend the ...

Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Abuja, Nigeria, speaks during a forum addressing international religious freedom issues at the United Nations in New York March 1, 2019. (Credit: Gregory A. Shemitz/CNS.

Young adults, clergy and bishops participated in synodal circles during the National Catholic Association of Diocesan Directors of Hispanic Ministry conference in Newark, N.J., Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: ...

Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising has announced that the Catholic Church in Germany is embarking on a "binding synodal process" to tackle what he says are the three key issues arising from ...

We can argue that this way of proceeding is not only enshrined in the Vatican II Documents like Lumen Gentium or Gaudium et Spes, but that this ecclesiological praxis of inclusivity and diversity is ...