Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, hopes the legacy of the Synod on Synodality launched by Pope Francis will be the renewal of the ...

The most controversial issues may be off the agenda of next month’s Synod on Synodality assembly in Rome. But make no mistake about it: The Oct. 2-27 gathering could still lead to several big changes ...

The director of the Catholic Research Centre in Kuala Lumpur offers an initial assessment for Asia of the path Pope Francis ...

Pope Francis opened the second assembly of the Synod on Synodality on Wednesday with a Mass concelebrated by over 400 priests, bishops, and cardinals in St. Peter’s Square. Bishops and cardinals ...

In his first speech from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, the newly elected Pope Leo XIV took the opportunity to endorse synodality, signaling that this cornerstone theological idea of Pope Francis ...

A synod is traditionally a meeting of bishops gathered to discuss a theological or pastorally significant topic. The word “synod” comes from a Greek term meaning “to meet” or “to walk together” (“syn” ...

Young adults, clergy and bishops participated in synodal circles during the National Catholic Association of Diocesan Directors of Hispanic Ministry conference in Newark, N.J., Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: ...

“Synodality” is a major theme of the Francis pontificate, but what the term means in its “Franciscan” register is not terribly clear. Vatican statements tend to talk around the meaning of the term, ...

I confess I fell asleep several times reading the new working document for the synod on synodality, which will have its second session this October. The working document, or instrumentum laboris as it ...

The ongoing Synod on Synodality is set to conclude at October's end. As we move closer to the end of the two-year-long process, it was heartening to read what women said at the concluding sessions at ...