Synod
The Shepherd’s Costume: Leo XIV’s Vision of the Church Without Teeth
In a span of forty-eight hours, Leo XIV addressed bishops, seminarians, priests, Eastern Church donors, drug rehab alumni, and synod bureaucrats. If you want to understand the post-conciliar Church’s ideology ...
Pope Leo, Catholic Boomer?
like Kremlinologists during the Cold War, American Catholics are searching for clues to the character of their new pope. Conservatives take heart that he wore the red mozzetta that Pope ...
German Bishop Resigns Early Citing ‘Inner Fatigue,’ ‘Synodal Way’ Doubts
A German bishop resigned five years before the typical retirement age Sunday, citing “inner fatigue” and expressing doubts that the country’s “synodal way” will lead to true renewal. Bishop Gregor ...
WATCH: Cardinal Grech Accidentally Reveals The Plans For The New Synodal Church
Cardinal Mario Grech was among a handful of names mentioned in Catholic circles as being a potential successor to the late Pope Francis. In this exclusive interview recorded inside the ...
Synod Leaders Try To Publicly Pressure Pope Leo XIV
The subtext of the letter is difficult to ignore. While couched in deferential language, the message is clear: the Synod Secretariats expect the new pope not only to honor the ...
Surveying Synodality
It’s sometimes said that synodality has never been properly defined, perhaps because modern ecclesiastical texts are not written by Schoolmen. A suitable definition might run, ‘Synodality is a spirit of ...
Does the Synod’s ‘Ecclesial Assembly’ Mirror Anglicanism’s Model and Undermine Episcopal Authority?
The newly announced synodal phase will begin at the local level in 2026, then move to national and international bishops’ conferences in 2027, before continuing with a continental evaluation in ...
Synodality: The Opportunity To Replicate The Germany Disaster Worldwide
From Catholic World Report: For the first time, fewer than 20 million Catholics live in Germany, according to the 2024 Church statistics published by the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK) on ...
Fruits of the German Synodal Way: Half a Million Catholics Leave the Church
The Catholic Church in Germany continues to experience a significant decline in membership, with official figures showing a drop of over half a million members in just one year. According ...
Fr. Murray: Synodality Forever!
The unending process that is the Synod on Synodality has taken a new and unexpected turn. The current “Implementation Phase” of the three-year synodal path, following the conclusion of last ...
WATCH: Hichborn and Stine Discuss the Interminable Synod
LifeSiteNews has reported that Pope Francis has announced a three-year implementation phase of the Synod on Synodality to be carried out by local churches and concluded with an ecclesial assembly ...
Francis Determined To Shove Synodality Down Our Throats
Pope Francis has launched a three-year implementation phase of the Synod on Synodality to be carried out by “local churches” and concluded with an ecclesial assembly in 2028. The move ...
WATCH: Francis FORCING Dioceses To Implement Synodality?
Matt Gaspers joins Joe McClane to discuss the concerns in what seems like a continuation of what is bad about Vatican II. Will Pope Francis live long enough to see ...
WATCH: Francis’ Endless Synod to Create Ape of the Church
Anthony Stine of Return to Tradition discusses latest Vatican pronouncement extending Synodality into 2028. From Vatican News: Cardinal Mario Grech, the Secretary General of the Synod’s General Secretariat, has announced ...
Have Bishops Cancelled The Pillar?
From JD Flynn at The Pillar: On Thursday, I was scheduled to give a talk about the work of Catholic journalists, as part of a “Catholic Culture” lecture series in ...
Synodality For Me, But Not For D.C.: On The McElroy Appointment
This pontificate talks big about synodality and collaboration and listening but then does whatever it wants in largely old-fashioned, non-synodal, autocratic ways. One of the primary problems with the implementation ...
The Sham of Synodality
The selective listening of our bishops is on full display. Catholic commentator Dr. Larry Chapp nailed it in his recent column reacting to Cardinal Cupich’s ban on kneeling to receive ...
Apparent Synodality and Creeping Authority
On November 25, 2024, Pope Francis published an Accompanying Note to the final document of the Synod on Synodality, held in Rome throughout the month of October. In it, he ...
Bishop Eleganti: The Bride Who is No Longer in Love with Christ
I begin with a preliminary remark: Synodality in the sense of consultation and mutual listening and taking seriously, in the sense of mutual recognition of one's own, God-given position (office ...
The Permanent Vagueness of Synodality
The Synod on Synodality held in Rome from October 4 to 28, 2024, ended with a provisional impression of unfinished business, deliberately maintained by Pope Francis. “Some members of the ...
Synod on Synodality: One Step Closer to the End
At long last, after a three year run, the conciliar circus known as the Synod on Synodality has come to an unceremonious close with the publication of its Final Document, “For a ...
