VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In many places in the world, including in Rome, people with disabilities cannot enter Catholic churches because of the architectural barriers, but even when they do, "we are not asked anything and we are not asked to participate
The Synod of Bishops is not a television show or a parliamentary debate, and its discussions will not be open to the public or to reporters, Pope Francis said. "We must safeguard the synodal climate," the pope responded Sept. 4 when asked
While there are many critics of the ongoing synodal process, whose full first session is just months away, Russell Shaw writes that there can still be positives that come from synodality. However, he agrees with an article written by theologian Chris Ruddy,
Pope Francis has appointed more than 450 participants, including dozens of religious men and women and laypeople from around the world, to attend the first general assembly of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality in October. And that list is not even
Four bishops have for the time being put the brakes on plans to continue the reform process of the Catholic Church in Germany.
The German Bishops' Conference must now look for alternative funding for the planned synodal committee, which was to put the
While the African continent is shattered by wars, violence and religious intolerance, church leaders gathered at the continental phase of the worldwide synod in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 1-6 pointed to charity, compassion and solidarity as remedies. Pope Francis launched the Synod
The Catholic Church today can, in an important sense, be described as a Church in upheaval. A significant part of that reality arises from the fact that the Church does not exist in isolation from our broader culture. At some points in
"Jesus is himself the way, and therefore, both in the liturgical journey (of Lent) and in the journey of the synod, the church does nothing other than enter ever more deeply and fully into the mystery of Christ the savior," the pope
The Church of England is planning to debate the introduction of liturgy that refers to persons of the Holy Trinity "in a non-gendered way" instead of using male pronouns.
The move was confirmed in the answer to a question submitted ahead of the
Germany's bishops do not have the authority to establish a permanent decision-making body of bishops and laypeople that top Vatican officials said would supersede the authority of the country's bishops' conference, according to a letter from the officials published Jan. 23.
In their