(RNS) — I confess I fell asleep several times reading the new working document for the Synod on Synodality, which will have its second session this October. The working document, or Instrumentum ...

WASHINGTON — The Vatican’s Synod on Synodality issued a working document designed to set a framework for the second, or “continental,” stage of the three-year global process launched by Pope Francis ...

A committee of 22 people this week kicked off the writing process for the Synod on Synodality’s working document that will be the blueprint for discussions during the meeting of bishops in October.

Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the synod, speaks during a news conference at the Vatican on July 9, 2024, to present the working document for the second assembly of ongoing the Synod of ...

VATICAN CITY — In late August, the leadership of the Synod of Bishops announced the next stage in the Catholic Church’s Synod on Synodality. The continental phase follows the diocesan, in which ...

Many of the hot button issues that dominated Pope Francis' high-stakes summit on the future of the Catholic Church last October, such as women deacons and welcoming LGBTQ Catholics, will be off the ...