Tag: Synod
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Synod on Synodality: Breaking news and analysis live from the Vatican
By CNA Staff CNA Newsroom, Oct 6, 2024 / 20:05 pm The Catholic Church’s Synod on Synodality has entered its final phase. Bishops, lay experts, and even non-Catholic observers from around the world have gathered in Rome this October for a monthlong assembly that could reshape the Church, its governance, and itsteaching. Pope Francis, opening…
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Lebanese bishop makes impassioned plea for peace at synod briefing
By CNA Staff CNA Newsroom, Oct 5, 2024 / 10:35 am A Lebanese bishop made an impassioned plea for peace and forgiveness at the Synod on Synodality’s daily press briefing on Saturday, as the assembly’s first week drew to a close. Bishop Mounir Khairallah of Batroun shared his personal experience of violence and forgiveness, recounting…
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Analysis: This week at the Synod on Synodality — revolution or much ado about nothing?
By Andrea Gagliarducci Vatican City, Oct 3, 2024 / 17:45 pm Perhaps it is in the very nature of the Synod on Synodality to take steps back after having taken several steps forward. But the tone of the opening days of the synod’s final general assembly makes it apparent that, for the moment, there is…
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Here’s what will be new at the Synod on Synodality part 2
By Hannah Brockhaus Rome Newsroom, Sep 16, 2024 / 16:15 pm Before the second session of the Synod on Synodality kicks off in Rome at the beginning of October, participants will gather in retreat to pray together and ask forgiveness for sins in a penitential prayer vigil led by Pope Francis. In addition, four new…