Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
Halfway through the Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis and synod participants prayed that God would “remove the divisions between Christians” so that they could proclaim the Gospel together.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
While the Catholic Church’s Synod of Bishops is not exactly like a synod in other Christian communities, the issues being discussed and the way they are being handled are relevant to other Christian churches and to the search for Christian unity, synod participants said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Bishops, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
A bishop who runs his diocese like a “monarch” is not only not acting synodally, but he probably is lonely and stressed, said theologians advising the Synod of Bishops.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
Pope Francis will welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy back to the Vatican Oct. 11, four months after their last meeting, the Vatican press office announced.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News
Most people claim they want unity, but usually they mean they want others to unite around their own point of view, which gives rise to conflict, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
Members of the Synod of Bishops have voted to give up one of their few free afternoons to “dialogue” with the leaders of the study groups Pope Francis set up to reflect on important questions raised by the synod in 2023.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
As fighting in the Middle East intensified and spread, Pope Francis turned to Mary, begging her to “intercede for our world in danger.”
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis announced he would create 21 new cardinals Dec. 8, including a 99-year-old former nuncio and the 44-year-old Ukrainian bishop who heads his church’s eparchy in Melbourne, Australia.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
At the end of a multiyear process of listening, praying, discussing and discerning, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, said he hopes the Synod of Bishops can give Catholics four practical suggestions for being a more “synodal” church.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: deacons, Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
“Rushing” to open the diaconate to women in the Catholic Church would short-circuit a necessary reflection on the relationship between ordained ministry and charismatic leadership, particularly as it impacts the participation of women in the church, said the head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office.
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Pope Francis opened the second session of the Synod of Bishops defending his decision to give women and laymen votes at the assembly, saying it reflects the Second Vatican Council’s teaching that a bishop exercises his ministry with and within the people of God.
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Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
The Catholic Church cannot be credible in its mission of proclaiming Christ unless it acknowledges its mistakes and bends down “to heal the wounds we have caused by our sins,” Pope Francis said.
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