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Q and A with Fr John Flader: Understanding Laudate Deum

I have read the Pope’s document Laudate Deum on climate change and I disagree with much of it. Am I disloyal to Church teaching?

Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP: What Synodality is, and is not

Although we might think it a novel concept in the pontificate of Pope Francis, the noun σύνοδος (synod) has a long history in Catholic thought and practice,[1] especially in Eastern Christianity.

Synod report muted on hot-button issues, yet signals deeper shifts

While hot-button issues like gender and sexuality received less attention than predicted, the synod's final report signaled deeper shifts

Biden and Pope Francis discuss conflict in Israel and Gaza

President Joe Biden and Pope Francis spoke by phone Oct. 22 to discuss the conflict in Israel and Gaza and facilitating a path to "durable peace" in the region, according to the press offices of both leaders.

Xavier Rynne II: Letters from the Synod 2023, #9

In order for the Church to advance her noble mission in the world, she remains in continuous need of deeply learned, faithful, and innovative leaders, within the Church and throughout the wider culture.

Pope calls for world day of prayer for peace as catastrophe...

Warning against a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and ongoing conflicts elsewhere, Pope Francis has called for a day of fasting, penance and prayer for peace in the world 27 October.

Synod elects members to oversee synthesis report

With 364 members and dozens of special guests having the right to speak at the assembly of the Synod of Bishops, accurately synthesizing the discussion will be a major undertaking.

Pope replies to cardinals’ dubia

The Catholic Church, in pursuit of “pastoral prudence,” should discern if there are ways of giving blessings to homosexual persons that do not alter the church’s teaching on marriage, Pope Francis said.

Take leap of faith and dare to love your family, those...

The world and the Catholic Church today need to take a leap forward "in faith, charity and hope," Pope Francis said in his homily at a late afternoon Mass in Marseille's open-air stadium.

Monica Doumit: Playing to the extremes gets attention, but at what...

Some of you may have seen a YouTube clip from Fr James Altman, a priest of the diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin last week....

George Weigel: Christian solidarity with a martyr-church

Ever since the 1596 Union of Brest reestablished full communion between the Bishop of Rome and several ecclesiastical jurisdictions in eastern Europe, what we...

Synod media blackout will undermine, not enhance, its credibility

“The pontifical secret is something that everyone knows, except the pope” goes one joke. “A pontifical secret is something you can only tell one person...
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