Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
During two days of meetings, Pope Francis and his closest cardinal advisers discussed the relationship between local churches and other institutional church assemblies, a main topic of discussion to come out of the Synod of Bishops on synodality.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News
Doubling down on the centrality of synodality in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said that it is now up to local churches to accept and implement proposals from the final document approved the Synod of Bishops on synodality.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Synodality, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News
The discussion on the floor in Baltimore followed reflections on the recent Synod of Bishops on synodality held in Rome offered by Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, and Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, two of the bishop-delegates from the United States.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Synodality
Service is about willingness, not worthiness; the church needs to be willing to actually sit down and create a plan for the creation of formal lay ministries, and then do it.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
Members of the Synod of Bishops experienced a new way of being church and are committing to sharing it, said the two cardinals who guided its work.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
Three years after he asked the world’s Catholics to walk together in faith on a synodal journey, Pope Francis said that the church cannot risk becoming “static” but must continue as a “missionary church that walks with her Lord through the streets of the world.”
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