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Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney spoke to EWTN on the occasion of the Synod on Synodality. | Credit: EWTN News

Synod Delegate: If Synod Proposal at odds with Gospel, ‘that’s not of the Holy Spirit’

Oct 20, 2023

“We’ve got to be careful about blaming everything — all our opinions, our interests, lobbies, and factions — putting all that on the Holy Spirit,” he said. 

Archbishop Faustino Armendáriz of Durango, Mexico. | Credit: Archdiocese of Durango

"It’s a challenge to seek the will of God" at Synod on Synodality, Synod Delegate Says

Oct 20, 2023

The archbishop of Durango, Mexico, Faustino Armendáriz, commented that “it’s a challenge to seek the will of God” at the Synod on Synodality.

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At Vatican Observatory, Astronomers Reveal Thousands of Newly Discovered Galaxies

Oct 20, 2023

The findings at the October conference “pave the road for a better understanding of the structure of the Milky Way and the formation of all galaxies in general.”

Synod on Synodality spokesman Paolo Ruffini speaks to the media during a press briefing at the Vatican on Oct. 18, 2023. | Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Synod on Synodality: LGBT Issues, Female Diaconate Discussed in Emotional Third Week

Oct 20, 2023

The process has been driven by what the Synod on Synodality calls “active listening and speaking from the heart.”

Pope Francis meets with World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder at the Vatican on Oct. 19, 2023. | Credit: Vatican Media

World Jewish Congress Leader Asks Pope to Use "moral authority" to Help Israeli Hostages

Oct 19, 2023

In his meeting with the pope, Ronald Lauder urged the pontiff “to use your power, to use your strength, to get these hostages released.”

Paolo Ruffini, president of the synod’s communication commission (left); Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville, Texas (center); and Cardinal Michael Czerny (right) at a press briefing on Oct. 19, 2023. | Credit: Daniel Ibáñez

Synod on Synodality Poses “no danger to the nature of the Church”: Cardinal Delegate

Oct 19, 2023

Cardinal Michael Czerny made his assessment one day after Synod delegates were presented with a theologian’s sweeping vision for the hierarchical Church.

Bishop Pablo Virgilio S. David of Kalookan, Philippines (left), Cardinal Leonardo Steiner, archbishop of Manaus, Brazil (center), and Archbishop Zbigņev Stankevičs of Riga (right) all spoke at the Synod press conference on Oct. 18, 2023. | Credit: Daniel Ibáñez

Someone in Sin Can’t Be Told “everything is all right”: Synod Delegate on Same-sex Unions

Oct 18, 2023

“If there is a person living in sin and we tell this person, ‘Everything is all right with you, it’s OK, go ahead,’ we do harm,” the prelate said.

Pope Francis at the general audience at St. Peter's Square on Oct. 18, 2023. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Stresses Need to Put Jesus at the Center of our Lives

Oct 18, 2023

At the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 18, the pope announced that Oct. 27 has been designated as a day of prayer and fasting.

Pope Francis presides over his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Oct. 18, 2023. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Announces Prayer Vigil, Day of Fasting for Peace in Israel-Hamas War

Oct 18, 2023

An interfaith vigil will take place at 6 p.m. Oct. 27 in St. Peter’s Square, where the faithful will join the pope in “an hour of prayer in a spirit of penance.”

Father Dario Vitali speaks at the Synod on Synodality at the Vatican, Oct. 18, 2023. | Credit: Screenshot/Vatican Media YouTube

Synod on Synodality Asked to "rethink the whole Church" According to Synodality

Oct 18, 2023

The next stage of the Synod on Synodality opened Wednesday with a call to focus on authority, decentralization, and the co-responsibility of the laity.

Pope Francis smiles during his general audience in St. Peter's Square Sept. 27, 2023. | Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Pope Francis in New Interview: "Church has to change" in Favor of Human Dignity

Oct 17, 2023

Pope Francis, speaking in a new interview published by a media outlet in his native Argentina, said the Church must change “in favor of the dignity of the people.”

“As a woman, I’m not focused at all on the fact that I’m not a priest,” Renée Köhler-Ryan, one of 54 women delegates to the Synod on Synodality, said at a press briefing Oct. 17, 2023. | Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

There’s "too much emphasis" on Women Priests: Theologian at Synod on Synodality

Oct 17, 2023

“As a woman, I’m not focused at all on the fact that I’m not a priest,” Renée Köhler-Ryan said at a press briefing Oct. 17.

Archbishop José Miguel Gómez Rodríguez. | Credit: Archdiocese of Manizales

Synod on Synodality "cannot remove pages from the Bible," Synod Delegate Says

Oct 16, 2023

Archbishop José Miguel Gómez Rodríguez, the archbishop of Manizales in Colombia, shares his experience at the Synod of Synodality.

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, OFM, patriarch of Jerusalem. | Credit: Daniel Ibáñez

Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem Offers to be Exchanged for Hostages Held by Hamas

Oct 16, 2023

Israel Defense Forces announced Monday that 199 Israeli hostages, including children, are being held by Hamas.

Bishop William Shomali, an auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. | Credit: Paul Fifield/CNA

Jerusalem Bishop Discusses Hopes for Cease-fire, "two-state solution" to Israel-Hamas War

Oct 16, 2023

Bishop William Hanna Shomali’s interview with EWTN New’s “Vaticano” program aired Oct. 15.

Synod on Synodality delegates in small groups listen to Pope Francis’ guidance for the upcoming weeks on Oct. 4, 2023. | Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

This week at the Synod on Synodality: Participation focus comes amid exit of Chinese bishops

Oct 16, 2023

The Vatican confirmed that the bishops from the People’s Republic of China are leaving ahead of the event’s conclusion.

Pope Francis at the Synod on Synodality on Oct. 10, 2023. | Credit: Vatican Media

Synod on Synodality Reports not "secret," But Still Won't Be Shared, Spokesman Says

Oct 15, 2023

The decision was communicated Saturday by Paolo Ruffini, president of the Synod’s communication commission, at a press briefing earlier today. 

Sister María de los Dolores Palencia Gómez, Superior General of the Congregation of St. Joseph of Lyon, speaks to journalists during a press briefing for the Synod on Synodality at the Vatican on Oct. 14, 2023. | Credit: Screenshot from Synod on Synodality livestream video

Women Role: Synod “setting stages for future changes”, First Woman Presides over Assembly

Oct 15, 2023

Sister Maria de los Dolores Valencia Gomez, a Sister of St. Joseph, spoke at a press briefing about the participation of women in the ongoing Synod of Synodality and what it might mean for the future.   

St. Thérèse of Lisieux. | Credit: Public domain

Pope Francis Highlights "little greatness" of St. Thérèse of Lisieux in Apostolic Letter

Oct 15, 2023

St. Thérèse of Lisieux, also called “The Little Flower,” was a French Carmelite nun who died in 1897 from tuberculosis at the age of 24.

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, OFM Cap., was the main celebrant of a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for synod participants on Oct. 13. | Credit: Vatican Media

The Devil “wants to see us divided,” SECAM President Says at Synod on Synodality Mass

Oct 14, 2023

“If we have the courage to look at our current reality as a Church, it won’t be hard to see how the Evil One is at work, ” Fridolin Cardinal  Ambongo Besungu, the Archbishop of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), who doubles as the President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conference of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), has said.