The Synod on Synodality has raised the question of the role and authority of bishops’ conferences. In 1988, another moment ...

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, didn’t think much of bishops’ conferences. Among those who disagreed with ...

There has been an alarming lack of transparency around the work of the synod’s ‘Study Group 5,’ tasked with examining, among ...

No community or U.S. region can consider itself safe from the extreme weather events that global warming is seeding and ...

This Sunday’s readings highlight the “throng” guided by the hand of the Lord. It turns out that the most vulnerable are ready ...

The Vatican and the Chinese government are renewing their agreement on the appointment of bishops for four years.

A lot of people have sacrificed much to participate in the synod meetings. Who wants to come away with little to show from it ...

Perhaps it seems foolish to put so much stock in one mother’s cry for help. But then again, the cries of our forefathers and ...

In a conversation inspired by Pope Francis and his message of encounter, Ricardo da Silva, S.J., welcomes Dr. Moira Egan to ...

We know that the Holy Father has expressed that at this time the issue of the female diaconate is not mature and has asked ...

Father Marcelo Pérez, an Indigenous Tzotzil priest and peace activist, was murdered after celebrating Sunday Mass in Mexico's ...

Even if some members of the Synod of Bishops end up feeling disappointed by the results of the synod, “God’s providence is at ...