Synod study groups release ‘interim’ reports as most continue working November 17, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News The study groups Pope Francis had established to provide an in-depth reflection on controversial, complex or “emerging” questions raised during the Synod of Bishops on synodality have published interim reports.
Reflections on the synodal journey October 27, 2025By Jenny Kraska Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Jubilee 2025, Synodality, Vatican Participating in the Jubilee for Synod Teams and Participatory Bodies in Rome was a moving experience of communion, prayer and listening at the heart of the universal Catholic Church.
St. Katharine Drexel explores synodal participation in Frederick September 18, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Synodality, Western Vicariate The parishioners of St. Katharine Drexel in Frederick found themselves at a turning point in the summer of 2024 after the retirement of their founding pastor, Father Keith Boisvert.
Bishops meet in Colombia to discuss future of church’s Pan-Amazon region August 21, 2025By Eduardo Campos Lima OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, Synodality, World News More than 90 bishops from different parts of the Pan-Amazon region gathered in Bogotá, Colombia, Aug. 17-20 to take a fundamental step in the implementation of some of the Amazon synod’s proposals.
Synod office provides guidelines to help local churches, bishops implement synodality July 9, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News Local churches and bishops worldwide will be instrumental in helping implement the proposals and foster the spirit of the 2024 final document of the Synod of Bishops on synodality, the Vatican synod office said.
With pope’s support, Vatican to publish document on synod’s final phase July 2, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News Almost four years after Pope Francis opened the Catholic Church’s path toward synodality — a term many in the church had never heard before — his successor has thrown his support behind the last leg of the church’s synodal journey.
Synods and synodality: Pope Francis’ method, vision for church April 25, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Synodality, Vatican, World News While Pope Francis often bucked formality and sidestepped some offices of the Roman Curia, one institution he believed in deeply was the Synod of Bishops and — even more — the notion of “synodality.”
Pope approves next phase of synod, setting path to 2028 assembly March 17, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has approved the next phase of the Synod of Bishops on synodality, launching a three-year implementation process that will culminate in an ecclesial assembly at the Vatican in October 2028.
Ahead of U.S. Franciscans’ synod, friars say ‘communal discernment’ long-held tradition for order January 8, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vocations, World News 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 Lady of Guadalupe — humble as they are — would still like to gently remind us it’s something Franciscans like themselves have been doing for centuries.
India’s Syro-Malabar Catholic Church begins synod amid liturgy row January 7, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Synodality, World News A crucial meeting of the India-based Eastern Catholic Syro-Malabar Church’s synod of bishops began amid a simmering decades-old liturgy dispute over the rubrics of Mass.
Two women join Vatican council that implements synod, prepares next one December 13, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News For the first time, women will serve on the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod, the committee that oversees implementation of the most recent synod and prepares the next assembly.
Polish Catholics welcome new Warsaw archbishop’s ‘synodal commitment’ December 13, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News When a new archbishop takes charge of Poland’s key Warsaw Archdiocese Dec. 14, his progress will be watched closely by those favoring change in the country’s Catholic Church.
