Synod
True and False Democracy in the Catholic Church
One of the assumptions that seems to animate so many of the conversations surrounding a more synodal Church is that a more “democratized” Catholic Church is by definition a better ...
Cardinal Burke Warns Synod Threatens to Spread ‘Devastation’ of German Church to ‘Universal Church’
On Sunday, the Feast of Pentecost, U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke warned graduates of Thomas Aquinas College about the potential “devastating” impact the upcoming October meeting of the Synod of Bishops ...
Archbishop Agüer: Synodal Cancellations
The progressive official party installed in Rome for just over a decade goes on in its policy of “cancellation” of those who, with freedom of spirit, seek to serve Jesus ...
Cardinal Marx: ‘Global, Synodal Church’ Without ‘Purely Clerical Rule’ Is ‘In The Making’
Cardinal Reinhard Marx has said a “global, synodal Church” without a “purely clerical rule” is “in the making.” In an essay for the German magazine Herder Korrespondenz entitled “Church on ...
Cardinal Sarah’s Appeal to Africa’s Delegates to October Synod to Defend “Unity of Faith” in Order: SECAM President
The recent appeal that Robert Cardinal Sarah made to delegates representing the Church in Africa at the ongoing Synod on Synodality to emphasize “unity of the faith” rather than specific ...
Cupich Claims Synod’s Egalitarian ‘Conversations in the Spirit’ Can ‘Revolutionize’ the Church
A leading U.S. cleric is proposing the “conversation in the Spirit” methodology employed at last October’s Synod on Synodality assembly as a model for reforming the Church, placing particular emphasis ...
Buckle-Up: Pope Asks Laity to Prepare for Synod’s ‘Prophetic’ Stage
The most important outcome of the current Synod of Bishops on synodality is the synodal process itself and not the hot-button topics discussed, Pope Francis said. With the second synod ...
Cardinal Sarah: African Bishops ‘Have Spoken for the whole Church’ by Rejecting Homosexual ‘Blessings’
Warning that the “Church is dying,” Robert Cardinal Sarah has issued a striking call to action for African Catholics to be the “defenders of the universality of faith” especially at ...
Cardinal Brandmüller: Oases in the Desert
As was to be expected: the “Synodal Way” has long since become lost in the pathless. The defiant attempts of professional Catholic “officials” to close their eyes to this reality ...
Cardinal Grech Sets Out Vision for ‘Rainbow’ Synodal Church
The Secretary General of the Vatican’s Synod of Bishops used an interview with a Swiss newspaper last week to lay out a vision for the Church, which addressed several contentious ...
Cardinal Müller SLAMS Synodal ‘Ideology’ – Trying to Turn the Church into an ‘NGO’
Former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Cardinal Gerhard Müller has stated that leaders of Germany’s Synodal Way and Pope Francis’ Synod on Synodality are “not ...
Key Synod Official Endorses Queer Blessings
A top cardinal who has a central role in the Synod has voiced his support for Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican declaration allowing blessings for same-gender couples. Today’s post features that ...
Never-Ending Synod: Vatican Delays ‘Controversial’ Topics to 2025
A three-year process aimed at putting the most pressing concerns of lay Catholics front and center in the church was reshuffled on Thursday (March 14), as the Vatican announced that ...
Regarding Synods, Sins, and Itching Ears
Today, there was a press conference held at the Vatican at which the Instrumentum Laboris for the upcoming Synod on Synods this October was released to the Vatican press corp ...
Belgian Archbishop: The Fundamental Teachings of the Church Are Currently Under Threat
Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard, the archbishop emeritus of Brussels-Mechelen and former primate of Belgium, has just published a book that will undoubtedly not go unnoticed in the Catholic world. L’Eglise dans ...
