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 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.

"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 ...

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 ...

Almost four years after Pope Francis opened the Catholic Church's path toward synodality -- a term many in the church had never heard before -- his successor has thrown his suppo ...

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 ...

The synodal process began with a listening phase, which was followed last October by discernment in prayer and dialogue to discover what steps the Spirit is asking us to take.

Now it is up to the rest of the church to become synodal. RNS. Synod ends with disappointment and hope. ... he leaves the issue open for further discernment by his successors and the church.

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 ...