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Thursday, November 23rd, 2023
The results of a national survey of Catholic priests released by The Catholic Project on Nov. 7 revealed an interesting dynamic in U.S. Catholic life. In the terminology used in the survey questions, young U.S. Catholic priests tend to be theologically traditional and politically conservative, particularly compared to older priests. Meanwhile, U.S. Catholics as a Read more
Tags: Pope Francis, Second Vatican Council, Synod on synodality, Synodality, US Catholic priests
Posted in Analysis and Comment, Great reads | Comments Off on Conservative priests and liberal laity: Can the synod heal our divides?
Monday, November 20th, 2023
It’s no secret that the Roman Catholic Church is deeply divided right now, perhaps as much as it’s ever been in the six decades since the end of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). The fractures are most obvious on social media where even priests, bishops and cardinals preach from cyber pulpits all along the theological Read more
Tags: Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Bishop Joseph Strickland, Cardinal Gerhard Müller i, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope St John Paul II, Robert Mickens, Second Vatican Council, Synod 2021 - 2024, Synodality
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on A house divided…
Thursday, November 16th, 2023
Cardinal Christophe Pierre has been apostolic nuncio to the United States since 2016 and, at Pope Francis’ request, he will continue in this role for the foreseeable future, he told America’s Vatican correspondent in an exclusive interview in Rome in early October. After graduating from the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, which trains Vatican diplomats, in 1977, Read more
Tags: Aparecida, Cardinal Christophe Pierre, Catholic evangelisation, Episcopal Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean, Pope Francis, Synodality, US Bishops
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Vatican ambassador urges US bishops to embrace synodality
Monday, November 13th, 2023
At the Synod on Synodality, the Western media focused on a limited number of hot-button issues — women’s ordination, married priests and blessing of gay couples. But hidden in the synod participants’ 40-page synthesis are some surprising gems that could lead to significant reform in the church. The hidden gems The first is a new Read more
Tags: 2023 Synod of Bishops, Abuse, Canon Law, Curia reform, Deconate, Diocesan reviews, Eucharistic hospitality, Lay Catholics, Liturgical language, Priestly Formation, Racism and Xenophobia, Synod, Synod 2021 - 2024, Synodality, the poor, Women
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Synod on Synodality – Fifteen hidden gems
Thursday, November 2nd, 2023
Initial reaction to the “synthesis report” from Pope Francis’ Synod on Synodality mixed. Conservatives warn that the Church is being ‘warmed up’ to major changes in doctrine, while progressives are complaining their issues have not been addressed or the document does not go far enough. The synthesis report outlines key proposals discussed between some 450 Read more
Tags: Synod, Synod 2021 - 2024, Synodality
Posted in News Shorts, World | Comments Off on Synod Synthesis Report now available to download in English
Monday, October 30th, 2023
As this column is being written, the Synod of Bishops is bringing to a close the most opaque assembly ever to be held in its relatively brief, post-Vatican II history. Actually, once the members of the October 4-29 gathering have voted on a final document (Saturday evening) and then celebrated the concluding Mass in St. Read more
Tags: Marko Rupnik, Robert Mickens, Synod, Synod 2021 - 2024, Synodality, Vatican II
Posted in Analysis and Comment, Great reads | Comments Off on Synod goes liminal: the unpredictability of the next 11 months
Monday, October 30th, 2023
Predictably, the anti-Pope Francis media giant, Eternal Word Television Network, and its subsidiaries give airtime to synod critics, including some who pass along false “facts” about things discussed and proposed. One programme has an American host who smirks at the concept of spiritual conversation. On the other side of the street, more liberal Catholic media Read more
Tags: Dr Phyllis Zagano, Pope Francis, Synod, Synod 2021 - 2024, Synodality
Posted in Analysis and Comment, Great reads | Comments Off on There’s the synod. And then there’s the dream of synodality.
Monday, October 30th, 2023
Pope Francis is asking for synodality in all parishes, presenting the Catholic Church in New Zealand with a monumental task, none more so than for the Synod delegates. While Synodality will not happen overnight, indeed there is a part two of the Synod in October 2024, CathNews spoke with some ‘synod watching’ Catholics about tasking Read more
Tags: Archbishop Paul Martin, Dr Joe Grayland, Fr Dennis Nacorda, Mr Manuel Bazley, Synod, Synod 2021 - 2024, Synodality
Posted in Great reads, New Zealand | Comments Off on NZ Catholic Church Synod delegates have big responsibility on shoulders
Thursday, October 26th, 2023
It is hard for result-oriented Americans to understand that, for Pope Francis, the synodal process is more important than any decision, report or document that comes out of it. We are eager to know what the synod will decide on specific issues like blessing gay couples, ordaining women as deacons or priests and authorising married Read more
Tags: 2023 synod on synodality, instrumentum laboris, Pope Francis, Synodality
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Francis wants the synod in every parish. Here’s how to bring it to yours.