'I hope you will pray for me, because the cross that was placed on me is very heavy,' Archbishop Garcera said in a video message on Facebook after his election. Archbishop Gilbert Garcera of Lipa in ...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday urged Christians to deepen their common witness by growing in “ecumenical synodal practices,” ...

(RNS) — When Pope Francis called for a worldwide consultation of lay Catholics about their concerns as part of the Synod on Synodality, U.S. bishops responded less than enthusiastically. Instead, the ...

Before the second session of the Synod on Synodality kicks off in Rome at the beginning of October, participants will gather in retreat to pray together and ask forgiveness for sins in a penitential ...

Pope Francis speaks to members of the Synod of Bishops on synodality after they approved their final document Oct. 26, 2024, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) ...

(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 ...

Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, hopes the legacy of the Synod on Synodality launched by Pope Francis will be the renewal of the ...

Pope Francis and members of the Synod of Bishops on synodality attend the synod's final working session Oct. 26, 2024, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) Just under ...

For the Malacca Johore Diocese (MJD), the year 2025 was marked by a deepening of synodal conversion, laying the pastoral foundations for 2026.

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 ...

You were probably unaware that there was anything of note going on at the Vatican this month. Even if you’re a diehard Catholic interested in the inner workings of Church politics, there’s enough ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson & Dan Henninger. Photo: Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Press Wire/AP Photo/Courtesy ...