Encuentros and their tested method of synodal discernment. If I were to name some of the methodological keys of the Encuentros, I would highlight five.

As part of local and regional synodal meetings for Franciscan friars, Franciscans share a laugh as they take part in a table exercise in Prior Lake, Minn., in October 2024, in which participants ...

Listening in a synodal church is not passive; it is deeply relational and closely linked to discernment. The synod document presents Mary as a model of this kind of listening: ...

"The term synodal discernment is, of course, ancient. It's new to most people, but it's an ancient practice," explained Franciscan Father Keith Warner, director of renewal for the friars' synod ...

The synod’s working document, released at the Vatican on June 20, highlights three priorities for building a synodal church: communion, mission and participation.

“Discernment” topics include women deacons, priestly celibacy, and greater decision-making by the “People of God. ... but rather engage in ongoing synodal discernment,” the document says.

Democratic deliberation is, for us, synodal discernment: what the Spirit says to the churches. A synodal institutional model is not based on antagonistic but communal logics.

Synod on Synodality delegates in Rome this month are participating in something called “conversation in the Spirit,” a method of communal discernment based on prayer and listening. “Synodal ...

Synod on Synodality delegates in Rome this month are participating in something called “conversation in the Spirit,” a method of communal discernment based on prayer and listening. “Synodal ...

Discernment will be “completed” in the 2024 session of the synod. The advisory final document at the end of the process in 2024 will be voted on by synod assembly participants and presented to ...

Cardinals and bishops attend the closing Mass of the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in this Oct. 28, 2018, file ...

Pope Francis often talks of ‘discernment’. It is not only the engine of decision-making in the synodal process throughout the Church, which begins ...