Why a Synod?

Author: Audrey RogersThese are difficult times. History offers sound lessons if one has eyes to see. Looking back, the year 1500 was a watershed year, marking the transition point from the medieval to the modern mindset because of the confluence of world-changing...

What Is the Synod on Synodality?

In September 2021, the Catholic Church convened what has been termed “the largest consultative process in human history”: the Synod on Synodality. Over 1 billion Catholics worldwide were invited to join in a collective effort of listening, sharing, and...

Reminder of Our Synodal Gatherings This Week

The Church has completed the first phase of the Synod and is now moving into the second phase. A small group of theologians, lay women and men, together with some clergy and religious met in Frascati Italy to create the Document for the Continental Stage of the...

New Years Blessing

May Synodal Gatherings Fill Every Corner of the World in This New Year Are you still asking yourself: What is all this talk about synods? Holding Synods is a long tradition of the Church where bishops were invited to come together, and to walk together, listening to...