Biya, 92, seeks 8th term amid growing dissent in Cameroon At 92, Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has announced his bid for an eighth term in the October 12 election, aiming to extend his 43-year rule.

The Vatican wants global Catholicism to embrace a more participatory future, but as dioceses prepare for sweeping synodal ...

A leading Cameroonian priest says the Church’s idea of Synodality as a vital alternative for politics in 2025 and beyond.

I was thinking of something Pope Francis said a few years ago when the Vatican released “Pathways for the Implementation ...

COMMENTARY: The ancient witness of the Eastern Catholic Churches may hold the key to healing divisions and reviving true ...

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.

ACCUSATIONS of Vatican, if not papal, deception have erupted over a leaked 2021 report compiled — but not disclosed — by the ...

In practice, this means that “those who cannot pay the usual stipends or stole fees because of poverty, will not be deprived ...

(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 ...

Many Catholics like myself who have followed the development of synodality under Pope Francis have been convinced that the decision to open synod voting to non-bishops was all but inevitable.

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.

Synodality requires a commitment of time and energy from bishops and laypeople, but it will be worth it, writes Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese.