Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
As members of the Synod of Bishops entered the last week of their meeting in Rome, the synod’s secretary-general urged them to resist the temptation of “covetousness” — the desire “to keep everything for ourselves, to possess, to hoard, to define, to close.”
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Synodality
Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talked with Archbishop William E. Lori while he was in Rome. The archbishop explains how the synod process works and how the delegates – which include priests, religious and lay people as voting members in addition to bishops for the first time – will vote on proposals to pass along to Pope Francis.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Colleges, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
The listening that has been part of the Synod of Bishops changes people, can change the Catholic Church and can change the world for the better, four synod members told U.S. university students in Rome.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Bishops, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
While some media reported a move at the Synod of Bishops to allow every national bishops’ conference to make Catholic doctrine, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, N.J., said that was not precisely what he heard.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News
Three weeks into the second session of the Synod of Bishops, journalists wanted to know what outcomes the synod members were moving toward, but several synod members said it is too soon to tell.
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Catholic News Service
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As the Synod of Bishops on synodality engaged in conversation on the church’s hierarchy, synod delegates examined the relationship between the local and universal church during a public theological and pastoral forum.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
ncouraging greater “synodal” practices in the Catholic Church should help the church find a greater balance between the power of the pope and the power of local bishops in their dioceses, said theologians participating in the Synod of Bishops.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
Members of the synod on synodality are only moving along the paths where there is consensus, said a group of theologians assisting the synod.
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Catholic News Service
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The faithful will know how to avoid being swayed by worldly standards and concerns when they believe and trust more deeply that Jesus and the Holy Spirit will always help and guide them, Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes of Mexico City told participants at the Synod of Bishops.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News
The Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region, which met in Rome in 2019, paved the way for the current synod on synodality, said the region’s top cardinal.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington said he hopes U.S. voters who are as concerned as he is about the “anger and vitriol” of the current election cycle will take time away from the media to think and pray about the values important to them as Catholics.
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Catholic News Service
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If members of the Synod of Bishops are serious about sharing their experience of “synodality” with all members of the Catholic Church, then they must identify concrete ways to do so, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich told members.
