October 11th, 2021 | Synod
Pope Francis formally opened the Synod of Bishops on Sunday, 10 October, with a solemn Mass in St Peter’s Basilica. Faithful from around the world – including laymen and -women, priests, seminarians, women and men religious, cardinals and bishops – took part in the liturgy, which marked the beginning of a two-year synodal process. In […]
October 9th, 2021 | Pope Francis, Synod, Synodal Journey
As the Universal Church is about to embark on the synodal journey, Pope Francis on Saturday, 9 October, invoked the Holy Spirit on the People of God so that they be able to move forward together, to listen to one another and discern our times, in solidarity with the struggles and aspirations of all humanity. […]
October 5th, 2021 | Synod, Synodal Journey
“As you know — it’s not a novelty — a synodal process is about to begin, a journey in which the whole Church is engaged around the theme: ‘For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, Mission,’ three pillars. Three phases are foreseen, which will take place between October 2021 and October 2023. This itinerary was thought […]
September 24th, 2021 | Armenia, Christian Unity
The Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church, meeting this week in Rome, has elected Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian as the 21st Catholicos-Patriarch. Source: Vatican News A ringing of bells in the patriarchal convent of Bzommar, Lebanon, announced the election of the Catholicos-Patriarch of Cilicia of Armenian Catholics: His Beatitude Raphaël François Minassian. He had served […]
July 26th, 2021 | Church, Synodal Journey
Introduction The title of the 2023 Synod of Bishops is For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, Mission. For the first time, the Synod Office in Rome has produced a comprehensive process which encompasses the stated aim of the Holy Father that the Church in today’s world should have a vision of missionary communion orientated to […]
July 26th, 2021 | Church, Synodal Journey
It’s an invitation for us, as Catholics, to ‘walk together’ and every member of the Church has the right to speak, and the obligation to allow those charged with the work of discernment the freedom to do so. For the first time, the Synod Office in Rome has produced a comprehensive process which encompasses the […]
March 16th, 2021 | Dioceses, Liverpool
News from the Archdiocese of Liverpool Liverpool Synod recommendations, to be voted on by Synod members in June, are now available along with resources to aid discussion and discernment. Overall there are 19 recommendations across a broad range of topics including evangelisation, spiritual formation, governance and synodality, property, and the place of the Church in […]
October 4th, 2019 | Environment
On the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi – the patron saint of ecologists who had an unbreakable love for animals and nature – the Church’s lead bishop on the environment, Bishop John Arnold, has called on Catholics to take the lead to address the “ecological crisis”. “Today is the feast of Saint Francis […]
April 2nd, 2019 | Vatican
Exhortation: Christus Vivit
November 30th, 2018 | Marriage and Family Life
On 22 November 1981, the Apostolic Exhortation on the Christian Family in the Modern World, Familiaris Consortio, was published. To mark the 30th anniversary in 2011, the Marriage and Family Life Project Office has prepared a multimedia archive examining the Synod of Bishops on the Family in 1980 whose deliberations inspired the content and structure […]
November 30th, 2018 | Family Synod, Marriage and Family Life
In this section you can read the synod’s preparatory document – or Lineamenta – and link out to a questionnaire to participate actively in preparation for the 2014 Synod. You can also look back on the last Synod of Bishops meeting on the family held in 1980 that resulted in the document Familiaris Consortio.
October 22nd, 2018 | Synod
Cardinal: Synod Week 3
