The Laudato si’ Action Platform will focus on seven sectors: families, parishes, schools, hospitals, businesses, organizations, and religious orders. Read more
Strengthening synodality is “the most important contribution” the Catholic Church can make to ecumenical dialogue, especially dialogue with the Orthodox,... Read more
The next ordinary Synod of Bishops will be a synod on synodality, the Vatican announced March 7. Read more
Pope Francis told the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s theological commission Friday that synodality will be key for... Read more
The Amazon synod final document, published Saturday, laid out the need to define “ecological sins” while calling the Church to... Read more
As the Amazon synod nears a close, a communications official downplayed Wednesday the importance of the assembly’s final report, saying... Read more
Pope Francis said Wednesday that the first Christian evangelization of the pagans opened up “a very lively controversy” as the... Read more
A senior legal official in the Vatican has dismissed the idea that a planned “synodal process” in Germany will be... Read more
The plan for a “binding synodal process” recently approved by the German bishops will be sent to a controversial lay... Read more
The bishops of Germany have voted to adopt a set of statutes for their long-planned “Synodal Assembly.” The decision was... Read more
Archbishop Nicola Eterovic reiterated the appeal of Pope Francis to the bishops that they focus on evangelization and maintain unity... Read more
The Church in Germany must revise its synodal plans in line with the pope’s leadership and the universal Church, Cardinal... Read more
The German bishops are set this week to vote upon statutes for a “binding synodal process,” days after Cardinal Reinhard... Read more
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, president of the German Episcopal Conference, has held talks with Pope Francis and Cardinal Marc Ouellet about German plans... Read more
The German bishops seem poised to press ahead with plans for a “synodal assembly,” despite criticism of the plan from... Read more
Cardinal Marx has informed the Vatican that the German synodal process will continue as planned, despite recent instructions from the curia... Read more
In a letter sent to German bishops last week, the Vatican has said that plans for a binding Church synod... Read more
The German bishops have rejected an alternative proposal for a synodal process centered on the “priority of evangelization” called for... Read more
Following the news that the Church in Germany will proceed to form a new Synodal Assembly as part of a... Read more
The decision to proceed comes despite a warning from Pope Francis to the German bishops that they must remain in step with... Read more