As the official synodal process enters its fourth year, the Vatican recently released the document, the instrumentum laboris, to guide discussions for the October 2024 synod. The document was ...

The second session of the Synod on Synodality concluded at the end of October in Rome—but the work of the synod is far from over, with its implementation phase just beginning. “Episcopalis Communio,” ...

Opinion: With the Archdiocese of Cincinnati listen to local Catholics during its first synod in 55 years, or just pretend to?

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 ...

(RNS) — 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 ...

Participants in the assembly of the Synod of Bishops gather Oct. 25, 2023, for an afternoon session in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) (OSV News) — Growth, ...

The Vatican announced March 15 that Pope Francis has initiated a new three-year implementation phase for the Synod on Synodality, which will culminate in a Church-wide meeting in Rome in October 2028.

(RNS) — The Synod on Synodality, which will hold its second and presumably last session in October, needs to set its own agenda, even if that means rejecting the pope’s agenda. The synod’s first ...

Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Abuja, Nigeria, speaks during a forum addressing international religious freedom issues at the United Nations in New York March 1, 2019. (Credit: Gregory A. Shemitz/CNS.