ROME: The General Secretariat of the Synod has today released the first two Final Reports of the Study Groups established by Pope Francis following the First Session of the XVI Ordinary General ...

The proposals drawn from all of the final reports will be submitted to Pope Leo XIV, who will evaluate and may approve them.

The first report contains recommendations on navigating the Church’s presence in digital spaces; the second focuses on ...

Pope Leo XIV directed the study group reports be made public, according to the General Secretariat of the Synod ...

A Synod on Synodality study group has recommended the creation of a new “Pontifical Commission for Digital Culture and New Technologies” in the first of 15 synod study group reports expected in the ...

The inclusion of "well-prepared and competent" women as co-responsible at all levels of priesthood formation is among the significant proposals included ...

Catholic doctrine on gay and transgender people won’t change anytime soon, Pope Leo XIV reportedly told a biographer in his ...

At a special event on March 26 at Toronto's University of St. Michael’s College, respected Canadian Catholic academic and writer Michael Higgins will unveil *Synod Diary: Sixty Days That Shook the ...

The Pontiff has dismissed any immediate prospect of change in the Vatican's stance on LGBT+ rights. It's one of many views he's discussed openly with Vaticanist Elise Ann Allen that are contained in a ...

Analysis of the Vatican's new digital mission report, focusing on inculturation, synodality, and the challenge to territorial church structures.

In the book, titled A Synod Diary: Sixty Days That Shook the Church (Paulist Press), Higgins takes readers on a daily journey through the two month-long assemblies that took place in Rome in the falls ...

But many around the world are trying to practise synodality and with success. Pope Leo regularly reinforces his support for ...