Synod of Bishops

BALTIMORE (OSV News) — The Eucharist and synodality are interconnected, said prelates attending the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ annual fall plenary assembly Nov. 13-16. Synodality, they said, ensures the …

(OSV News) — Returning from the first session of the Synod on Synodality’s global, monthlong gathering in Rome, Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, has already seen …

(OSV News) — “Perhaps,” said Father Timothy Radcliffe — preacher, speaker, and former master of the Order of Preachers, commonly known as the Dominicans — “religious orders have something to …

(OSV News) — The Synod on Synodality’s first session at the Vatican has concluded, with its results wrapped up in a 41-page “half-time report” for the entire church to digest, …

(OSV News) — “Clericalism is a whip, it is a scourge, it is a form of worldliness that defiles and damages the face of the Lord’s bride; it enslaves God’s …

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — To reform the church is to put God first and adore him, and to love and serve others, Pope Francis said at Mass marking the conclusion …

(OSV News) — Throughout the various stages of the Synod of Bishops on synodality, several church leaders have referred to a new model of church that includes basic ecclesial communities. …

(OSV News) — When Enrique Alarcón Garcia, president of Frater España, a Christian fraternity of people with disabilities in Spain, entered the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall as a papal …

(OSV News) — Throughout the Synod on Synodality’s meetings in Rome, concern for migrants and refugees has repeatedly emerged as a central theme — with an emphasis on the importance …

(OSV News) — “Are we ready to accept that Christ is the head of the body, and that the body can only function if each part relates to the head …