(RNS) — I confess I fell asleep several times reading the new working document for the Synod on Synodality, which will have its second session this October. The working document, or Instrumentum ...

The instrumentum laboris for October's second session of the synod on synodality was issued this week, and as NCR's Vatican correspondent Christopher White reported, it differs from last year's ...

The definition of "original document" in the Macmillan Dictionary states, "Existing at the beginning of a period or process, before any changes have been made." It is no secret that hundreds if not ...

The working document on the Synod on synodality, released by the Vatican on June 20, reflects an attempt to balance between two currents of this synodal process. On the one hand, there is the will to ...

As preparations continue for the second assembly of the Synod of Bishops on synodality, enthusiasm for greater involvement in the life and mission of the church is accompanied by "confusion, worry or ...

Bishops pray at the start of a session of the Synod of Bishops on Young People, Faith and Vocational Discernment at the Vatican Oct. 9, 2018. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) After a two-year process of ...

Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the synod, speaks during a news conference at the Vatican on July 9, 2024, to present the working document for the second assembly of ongoing the Synod of ...

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