The Vatican says the confidentiality requirement exists ‘in order to guarantee the freedom of expression of each and all regarding their thoughts and to ensure the serenity of the discernment in ...

EDITORIAL: Synodality has something to offer the Catholic Church, but not at the expense of what it actually teaches.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The unprecedented gathering of 464 Catholic clergy and laypeople, including women, begins Oct. 4 at the Vatican. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Catholic clergy and laypeople will gather at ...

Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis and Cardinal Kevin Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, pose for a photo during a ...

Catholics in Asia and Africa have already been leading the way with synodality, two members of the Synod of Bishops on synodality said. Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Bamenda, Cameroon, told ...

I confess I fell asleep several times reading the new working document for the synod on synodality, which will have its second session this October. The working document, or instrumentum laboris as it ...

Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, attends a Vatican news conference in this Oct. 26, 2015, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) India’s Cardinal Oswald Gracias believes that synodality is the ...

(RNS) — Pope Francis preaches about synodality, but canon lawyers are showing us how to make it more than a pious wish. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The study groups appointed by Pope Francis to deal with ...

“Synodality” is a major theme of the Francis pontificate, but what the term means in its “Franciscan” register is not terribly clear. Vatican statements tend to talk around the meaning of the term, ...

Catholics in Asia and Africa have already been leading the way with synodality, two members of the Synod of Bishops on synodality said. Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Bamenda, Cameroon, told ...