On Monday, the Synod of Bishops will publish the final synodal document on how local churches can implement the Synod's ...

Synodality isn’t “a chapter in an ecclesiology textbook” or a “fad or a slogan to be bandied about in our meetings,” the pope has emphasized. Sunday, June 29, 2025.

“The legacy he has left us, in my view, is above all this: that synodality is a style, an attitude that helps us to be Church ...

Synodality is a “constitutive dimension” of the church. This is an important phrase and concept that appears early in the document (No. 28). It means that along with, ...

By Antonella Palermo and Linda Bordoni Pope Leo XIV received the President and Vice President of the Council of European ...

Vatican City, Oct 20, 2023 / 07:31 am. This past week the Synod on Synodality assembly delved into two crucial themes: the accompaniment of LGBT individuals and the topic of a female diaconate.

Cardinals, bishops, and other Catholic Church leaders, as well as theologians, historians, and journalists convene at Boston College to discuss synodality, the call by Pope Francis for the universal ...

COMMENTARY: Definitions of synodality have finally been offered in the synod’s final report, including everything and leaving nothing out. Pope Francis addresses those in attendance at the ...

(RNS) — Pope Francis’ Synod on Synodality, which will take place in October 2023, is the greatest gamble of this papacy. It may succeed in bringing greater unity to the church, or it could ...

The Vatican is again talking about how to talk. That, in a nutshell, describes the Catholic Church’s “Synod on Synodality,” which begins Oct. 2.

As a way of being church, synodality might be thought of as collegiality resurrected, but without all the baggage that encumbered collegiality over the years following Vatican II, writes Fr ...