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The synod is intended to be a collegial, collaborative event, though the agenda includes divisive issues such as the role of women in the church and the inclusion of LGBTQ Catholics. If there's ...

22 when the German bishops' conference (DBK) and the lay Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) the synodal way's co - sponsors released the six - page text. The letter, dated June 22, presented ...

B., who is the Apostolic Exarch for the Catholics of the Byzantine rite in Greece and who have been appointed by Pope Francis to be a participant in the Synod, has written a commentary concerning the ...

The mission at the Holy See noted on Facebook that Pu had brought the best wishes from Taiwan Catholics with him,

In this five - part series, former NCR editor Tom Roberts examines the choices many former Catholics have made as they decided to move away from the institutional church. Martha Ligas learned about ...

Ahead of the U. S. Catholic Church's observance of National Migration Week, the U. S. Bishops Conference Migration Chair is reminding Catholics that they are 'compelled to respond with charity' to migrants and refugees forced to flee their homes. 'For millennia, people have been forced to flee their homelands, seeking safety and ...

American Catholics of a certain age will recall our 'liturgy wars' of the 1990s and 2000s, which, among other things, culminated in a new translation of the texts used at Mass and in other sacraments. It's ...

S, at least, many Catholics are anxious about the synod, its agenda, and its outcomes. To address that, the Holy See has announced that next month's meeting in Rome will be essentially a closed - ...

Not a lot unites Northern Ireland's fractious political and religious groups. The British government has managed it with a law that sets out to lay the ghosts of decades of violence to rest. All of ...

In October, the Catholic Church is going to have an international meeting in Rome on the topic of synodality. This is an unfamiliar term to most Catholics, except those of Eastern traditions, whose bishops regularly come together in synods to govern the church. In the Western church, we call such meetings "councils," not synods. What then is ...