VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Synod on Synodality, which has been a three-year process of worldwide consultation with two monthlong meetings in Rome, has concluded with both disappointment and hope ...

As the pope’s Synod of Bishops on Synodality breaches the halfway point, participants are now debating the “doctrinal competency” of national bishops’ conferences, loosely meaning their ...

Cardinal Müller criticized Synod on Synodality, questioning its clarity due to mixed membership of bishops and non-bishops ...

Rome Newsroom, Feb 16, 2024 / 16:30 pm Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, the bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, has released another critique of the Synod on Synodality, arguing that the ongoing discussion ...

A month-long Vatican meeting on the future of the Roman Catholic Church ended on Saturday without clear stands on hot-button issues such as women deacons and welcoming the LGBT community.

Synod publishes final report and votes: Calls for more discussion on synodality, women deacons and more Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service October 28, 2023 ...

One of the questions under consideration during this stage of the synod is the possibility of admitting women to the diaconate.

Pope Francis is cautioning participants in the worldwide Synod on Synodality not to treat the global meeting as a political debate or parliamentary argument.

As the Synod of Bishops meets in Rome, a Catholic theologian explains the preparations that went into the consultative process and what it says about Pope Francis’ vision for the future church.

It is a synod on the pan-Amazon region, not the pan-American region, and it occurred in October 2019, not June 2019. When we learn of a mistake, we acknowledge it with a correction.

ROME – As first reported yesterday by Loup Besmond of La Croix, Pope Francis apparently is considering imposing pontifical secrecy on the upcoming Synod of Bishops on synodality, not simply on ...

The delegates are made up of representatives selected by bishops’ conferences and Eastern Catholic Churches, leaders in the Roman Curia, and 120 delegates personally selected by Pope Francis.