David Harvie of Metuchen, who led the historic LGBTQ pilgrimage to Newark’s Sacred Heart Cathedral in 2017, followed the 2023 Vatican Synod’s daily progress. Asked about the results, he said, “Still ...

‘LGBTQ+’ terminology and a ‘super synod’ proposal didn’t make the cut, while a proposal for ex-priests to be given a ‘pastoral service’ was added. Holy Mass for the conclusion of the Ordinary General ...

It was "impossible not to feel a certain buzz or energy that something historic was taking place," said NCR Vatican Correspondent Christopher White as he reflected on the recently concluded monthlong ...

Amendments, or other avenues for affecting what was included in the text, still made significant difference in the 2024 text on a number of topics, including sexuality and the selection of bishops.

Before the month-long meeting of the Synod on Synodality last October in Rome, delegates were invited to a pre-synod retreat led by Timothy Radcliffe, O.P. Part of the purpose of the retreat was to ...

What has Pistoia to do with Rome? Why would those opposed to the Second Vatican Council or those who are skeptical about Pope Francis’ program of synodality evoke a diocesan synod held in a small ...

The synod, the first in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in 55 years, will bring together Catholics from 19 counties to discus their church's future.

The Synod on Synodality convened by Pope Francis has once again brought to the fore the clash between internal currents of the Church in dispute since the Second Vatican Council. The accusations of ...