Tag: Synodality
Synodality ‘truly important’ says pope
Pope Francis asked a group of Italian journalists to shun fake news and a love of scandal, including when covering the Catholic Church and...
Patrick O’Shea: What young traditional Catholics can offer
The description “young, traditional, Catholic” is one that typically sends shivers down the spines of many. “Why do you attend the old Mass? Haven’t...
George Weigel is mistaken. Synodality gives life to the vision of...
I was not surprised by George Weigel’s continuing criticism of Pope Francis and the coming Synod of Bishops (The Catholic Weekly, 9 July, 2023). I was surprised that his discussion of Vatican II’s central document Lumen Gentium ignored one of its most striking features.
Synod document asks how to increase unity, participation, mission outreach
October's Synod of Bishops will discern "the concrete steps which enable the continued growth of a synodal church" says working document.
Pope Francis grants voting rights at Synod on Synodality to women,...
About 21 per cent of the synod's 370 members will not be bishops and at least half of that group women, after a decision by the Holy Father
Synodality will ‘integrate circularity at all levels of the church’
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe and Sr Nathalie Becquart addressed reporters in the Vatican on 20 April about the synod's next stage
From Perth to Fiji, Oceania synod response captures diversity of the...
The final synodal document from Oceania tries to sift an enormously diverse region into a single document, no simple task
Church controversies will not ‘destroy us’ at synod: Archbishop Timothy Costelloe
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, a member of the preparatory commission for the synod on synodality, met with the Holy Father on March 13-16 after his appointment
Synodal reforms from Germany to Australia
The German Synodal Way has overwhelmingly passed a raft of measures to change doctrine on, among other things, same-sex blessings, lay preaching and transgenderism,...
Weigel: The new ultramontanism and the dissing of Vatican II
Why are apologists for the new ultramontanism not more critical of the bludgeoning of a small number of liturgical traditionalists?
To find the meaning of synodality, listen to the people
Sr Nathalie Becquart XMCJ, the undersecretary for the synod on synodality, visited Australia to promote the Church’s transformation into a ‘listening Church’.
After several years...
Synodality ‘neo-Marxist, New Age good will’, Pell says in parting column
In an article written for The Spectator prior to his sudden death, Cardinal George Pell says the synod documents need 'radical changes'
