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Synodality

Synod office provides guidelines to help local churches, bishops implement synodality

July 9, 2025
By 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, 2025
By 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, 2025
By 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, 2025
By 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, 2025
By 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, 2025
By 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, 2024
By 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, 2024
By 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.

Pope, cardinal advisers discuss collegiality, role of women

December 4, 2024
By Justin McLellan
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.

Final synod document is magisterial, must be accepted, pope says

November 25, 2024
By Justin McLellan
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.

U.S. bishops to consider creating task force for synodal implementation

November 13, 2024
By OSV News
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.

‘Empowering’ Female Catholics? ‘We’ll get back to you girls!’

November 8, 2024
By Elizabeth Scalia
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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