The Second Vatican Council (1962-65) was a unique ecumenical council. The previous twenty were assembled to address particular doctrinal or ecclesial crises, while John XXIII called Vatican II to layout a new pastoral program for […]
“You keep using that word,” says Mandy Patinkin’s Inigo Montoya to Wallace Shawn’s hapless Vizzini in Rob Reiner’s 1987 adaptation of William Goldman’s The Princess Bride, “I do not think it means what you think […]
I agree with everything Larry Chapp says in his recent pieces on the problems of “synodality.” But, perhaps very slightly more hopeful than he is, I want to make some suggestions overlooked by many in […]
In my previous essay I criticized the new emphasis on synodality as an essentially modern enterprise of bureaucratic legerdemain. I noted that while I support the concept of a more synodal Church, I am suspicious […]
Pope Francis meets participants in the plenary assembly of the International Union of Superiors General on May 5, 2022. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, May 5, 2022 / 09:56 am (CNA).
After arriving in a wheelchair for a meeting with religious sis… […]
Pope Francis lays hands on a Bangladeshi deacon as he ordains him to the priesthood during a Dec. 1, 2017, Mass in Dhaka. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, May 5, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis said on Thursday that “the Church must become in… […]
I am not opposed to a more “synodal” Church. In fact, I would welcome any move away from the cult of the modern hyper-papacy that views the pontiff as an Oracle of Delphi on the […]
Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, pictured on Feb. 17, 2022. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.
Vatican City, Mar 2, 2022 / 05:10 am (CNA).
A Vatican cardinal has said that the Synod on Synodality is a process of discernment, n… […]
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, Archbishop of Luxembourg, at the Vatican, Oct. 5, 2019. / null
Rome Newsroom, Feb 10, 2022 / 10:30 am (CNA).
The German “Synodal Way” is moving forward boldly following a decisive meeting in Frankfurt at the star… […]
Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa blesses the congregation at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on April 4, 2021. / Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem, Jan 28, 2022 / 09:10 am (CNA).
Catholic bishops in the Holy Land invited… […]
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