As the world gathers this week for U.N. biodiversity negotiations, the U.S. hasn’t ratified a decades-old treaty to protect ...

Fraternal delegates — non-Catholic representatives ... the Synod on Synodality press briefing held at the Vatican’s Holy See Press Office on Oct. 10, 2024. Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA The ...

Four years ago -- just two weeks prior to the last U.S. presidential election -- a Pew Research poll indicated more than half of American Catholics (56%) said abortion should be legal in all or most ...

For Francis, the synodal process was always more important than any decisions the synod made. Synodality requires a spiritual ...

The bishop’s request “was motivated by his desire to continue growing in priestly life and in service to the Church and the ...

By Christopher Wells Synod participants have proposed more than one thousand “modi”, or amendments, to the so-called “Final ...

Delegates from around the world are meeting ... The only other exception is the Holy See, which is also expected to attend. Here’s what’s expected over the next couple of weeks in Cali.

Without a ceasefire, the upcoming Jubilee year in Rome will be marred by the suffering and bloodshed in the Holy Land, Palestine's ambassador to the Holy See said ... the gift of peace" and encouraged ...

So I had a bit of a conversion during the synod: I am not only open to synodality, but I believe it is a powerful way to ...

In the spirit of synodality, which the Vatican roughly translates as “journeying together,” the delegates this year ... as a ...

Fr. James Martin shares his five insights from the synod's final document, just approved by Pope Francis and published by the ...