As part of local and regional synodal meetings for Franciscan friars, Franciscans share a laugh as they take part in a table exercise in Prior Lake, Minn., in October 2024, in which participants ...

A few weeks ago, in the run-up to the opening of the second session of the synod on synodality, the Prayer of the Faithful in our parish offered an intention for the synod and its delegates. Together ...

The most controversial issues may be off the agenda of next month’s Synod on Synodality assembly in Rome. But make no mistake about it: The Oct. 2-27 gathering could still lead to several big changes ...

While "synodality" might be a new concept to Catholics surprised by the Vatican's request that dioceses worldwide engage in community discernment from 2021-2024, the U.S. friars of the Province of Our ...

Pope Francis shakes hands with U.S. Jesuit Father James Martin, a member of the Synod of Bishops, as Jesuit Father Giacomo Costa, special secretary of the synod, looks on in the Paul VI Audience Hall ...

The second session of the Synod on Synodality is nearing the final stretch. Including last year’s assembly, the 368 delegates have spent nearly seven weeks of their lives listening to each other and ...

The second meeting of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops begins Oct. 2 at the Vatican. Like last year’s meeting, it’s a four-week-long gathering of 368 voting delegates — with ...

Pope Francis concelebrates Mass in the chapel attached to his private room on the 10th floor of Rome’s Gemelli Hospital Sunday, March 16, 2025. (Credit: Holy See Press Office.) Listen ROME – In the ...

Debate on women’s participation in the Catholic Church — including the idea of whether women could one day be deacons — is not on the agenda for this month’s assembly of the Synod on Synodality, but ...

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.

From Saturday, October 12th through Saturday, October 19th more than 150 students, campus ministers and educators from 15 Catholic colleges and universities from across the U.S. will make a pilgrimage ...