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The Vatican Briefing Podcast: A key bishop considers women deacons
by NCR Staff Listen: Vatican experts Joshua McElwee and Christopher White interview one of the 13 members of the committee expected to draft the final document from Pope Francis' ongoing summit on the future of the Catholic Church. Read more here » Aging Catholic...
A School of Formation: Synod Report for October 16, 2023
On the 45th anniversary of the election of Pope John Paul II, Synod participants assembled today to listen to the first reports from working groups on sections B.2.1 and B.2.2 of the Instrumentum Laboris, Dr. Paolo Ruffini reported at a press briefing this...
More a Heartbeat Than an Institution: Synod Report
In his remarks introducing the third module, or subject for spiritual conversation, to the Synodal Assembly this morning, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich said that “men and women receive the same baptism and the same Spirit” and “the baptism of women is not inferior to...
Communio, Companionship, Consensus: Synod Report for October 14, 2023
The Synod concluded its second week today with delegates discussing section B.2 of the Instrumentum Laboris, “Co-responsibility in Mission,” Dr. Paolo Ruffini confirmed at a press briefing this morning. Ruffini is the Prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for...
What’s happening at the Vatican October 14, 2023
This second day opened with Steve and Shawna Newcomb speaking about the Doctrine of Discovery/Domination and the injustices done to the indigenous communities so many but especially by governments and the Catholic Church. Jamie Manson spoke about “Who and What are...
What’s happening at the Vatican October 13, 2023
Today is the first of two of the major Spirit Unbounded days with presentations coming in from Bristol and Rome. The welcome and Introductions came from Maggie Conway and Penelope Middelboe from Bristol. Dr. Claudia Nothelle gave a presentation called Passing on the...
More a Heartbeat Than an Institution: Synod Report for October 13, 2023
In his remarks introducing the third module, or subject for spiritual conversation, to the Synodal Assembly this morning, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich said that “men and women receive the same baptism and the same Spirit” and “the baptism of women is not inferior to...
What’s happening at the Vatican Oct 12, 2023
Meeting at the Biblio Roma cafe next to the castle in Rome, our day began meeting Christina Reymer and her friend Sonja Grace for coffee. Sonja had recently authored a book on recovering from sexual abuse. Colm Holmes with We Are Church Ireland had just arrived and we...
Spiritual Ecologies: Synod Report for October 11, 2023
Grace Wrackia, a Synod delegate from Papua New Guinea, spoke about the unique gifts of Melanesian spirituality indigenous to her part of the world at a press briefing earlier today. Wrackia described this indigenous spirituality as having four main components:...
What’s happening at the Vatican October 11, 2023
Greetings from Rome. My friend, Kathleen Ellertson, and I are now in Rome. We drove to St.Peter's Square where there were thousands of visitors - most in line to see the Sistine Chapel or the Vatican Museum. But many were also there to support the Synod and to make...
Reports from Rome
A Need for Creativity: Synod Report for October 29, 2023 Click Here Listening in Simplicity: Synod Report for October 27, 2023 Read More A United Witness: Synod Report for October 26, 2023 Read More Students at the Table of Wisdom: Synod Report for October 25, 2023...
A Leaven for Positive Change: Synod Report for October 12, 2023
The importance of Small Christian Communities (SCCs), also known as Basic Ecclesial Communities (BECs) or Basic Christian Communities (BCCs), to the life of the church has been a recurring theme of the synodal discussion this week. SCCs are groups of generally no more...
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