In 2018, Pope Francis decreed in the apostolic constitution Episcopalis Communio that reformed the Synod of Bishops that the pope has the authority to approve and promulgate the final document, at ...

On Nov. 25, Pope Francis published a note reiterating — and in an official sense, formalizing — his decision to make the final document of the recently concluded Synod on Synodality part of ...

Almost four years after Pope Francis opened the Catholic Church's path toward synodality -- a term many in the church had never heard before -- his successor has thrown his suppo ...

Vatican City, Oct 27, 2024 / 08:55 am. Pope Francis closed the global Synod on Synodality’s final assembly on Sunday with a call for a Church that “hears the cry of the world” without being ...

ACCUSATIONS of Vatican, if not papal, deception have erupted over a leaked 2021 report compiled — but not disclosed — by the ...

V ATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a note released Monday (Nov. 25), Pope Francis reinforced that the final report issued by delegates to the recently ended Synod on Synodality constitutes church teaching.

The pope addressed the synod’s 16th ordinary council at its offices just outside the Vatican, where members are meeting June ...

Pope Francis delivers his homily during Mass in St. Peter's Square for the opening of the Synod of Bishops on synodality at the Vatican Oct. 2, 2024.

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 in which he warned ...

“The legacy he has left us, in my view, is above all this: that synodality is a style, an attitude that helps us to be Church ...

In 2018, Pope Francis decreed in the apostolic constitution Episcopalis Communio that reformed the Synod of Bishops that the pope has the authority to approve and promulgate the final document, at ...

On Monday, the Synod of Bishops will publish the final synodal document on how local churches can implement the Synod's ...