The Synod on Synodality has given members many opportunities for communal and individual prayer throughout the 2023 assembly — and even before it began. In an unusual feature for a synod, hundreds of ...

One way the Vatican has suggested that Catholics and their communities can pray for the synod is by reciting a prayer to the Holy Spirit, a simplified version of the “Adsumus, Sancte Spiritus.” A ...

A spirit of prayer will inspire the work of the forthcoming Synod of Bishops as it aims to create a roadmap for a new evangelization of historically Christian countries. "Prayer accompanies and ...

Participants in the Synod of Bishops hold candles as they pray at an ecumenical vigil with Pope Francis Oct. 11, 2024, in the Square of the Roman Protomartyrs at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) On ...

A woman holds a rosary during the Pope Francis’s Mass opening the assembly of the Synod of Bishops in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 4, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) What strikes me most about ...

The Secretariat for the Synod of Bishop has declared Sept. 28 a special day dedicated to prayers for Oct. 5-19 synod of bishops on the family, whose theme is “pastoral challenges to the family in the ...

Sr. Maria Elena Romero compares the work of contemplative life in this historic Synod of Bishops to that of the soldiers who guard for attacks in the rear of a mass of soldiers during battle. "There ...

The second Rome session of the Synod on Synodality began on Wednesday after a two-day retreat for participants and a public penitential service. Mother Maria Ignazia Angelini OSB and Fr Timothy ...

"The bond between the Church and the family is sacred and inviolable. The Church, as a mother, never abandons the family, even when it is disheartened, wounded, and mortified in so many ways. Not even ...