Following the first assembly of the synod on synodality in 2023, Pope Francis set up 10 study groups to reflect more deeply ...

The Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, issues a formal clarification regarding his absence from an ...

Before this month’s Synod at the Vatican, Pope Francis took the question of allowing women deacons off the agenda, referring this and other hot-button issues to study groups. That distressed many ...

After decades of progressive dissent, the leaders of the Christian Reformed Church in America finally took a firm stand ...

A lot of people have sacrificed much to participate in the synod meetings. Who wants to come away with little to show from it ...

Cardinal Víctor Fernández at a speech at the general congregation on Oct. 21 recalled that for the Holy Father the question ...

As members of the Synod of Bishops entered the last week of their meeting in Rome, the synod's secretary-general urged them ...

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Cardinal-designate Timothy Radcliffe offered his morning reflection before synod members inside Vatican's Paul VI Audience ...

"Rushing to ask for the ordination of deaconesses is not the most important way to promote women today," Cardinal Fernández ...

"This is just one synod. There will be others. We do not have to do everything, just take the next step,"  Cardinal-designate ...