SPIRITED THINKING SINCE 1888
Get unlimited access
My Account
Sign In
Subscribe
Sign Out
TODAY
NEWS
United States
United Kingdom
Vatican
Europe
Rest of World
SECTIONS
Arts
Books
Features
Life & Soul
Opinion
Sports
Tech
Travel & Pilgrimage
CHAPTER HOUSE
MAGAZINE
Arts
Books
PILGRIMAGE
Jobs
Podcasts
SUBSCRIBE
Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa
Improbable Hagiographies: Bl. Villana de’ Botti
Colin Brazier
Green Choices and Family Planning
Ken Craycraft
Lenten Fits and Starts
Lucas Hollweg
Friday supper: Red mullet, leeks, lemon and saffron
Niall Gooch
Counterfactuals
Leticia Ochoa Adams
Dancing in the Minefield
Synod of Bishops
Paul VI could be canonised in 2018
December 24, 2017
Vatican commissions approve miracle attributed to pope’s intercession
Pope gives young people three missions ahead of synod next year
April 10, 2017
Pope Francis said that the Church needed to hear the voices of young people
Tug of war over Amoris
September 22, 2016
Catholics are divided over how far Francis wants to change Church teaching regarding the remarried. But does he even have the authority to do so?
Families must forgive and not ‘end the day in war,’ Pope says
November 04, 2015
During his general audience Pope Francis said we shouldn't end the day without asking forgiveness of eachother
Synod declaration on the Middle East, Africa and Ukraine: full text
October 24, 2015
The synod fathers issued this appeal for peace at the end of the three-week family synod
God wants Church to make ‘journey of synodality’, says Pope
October 17, 2015
Pontiff makes major address on 50th anniversary of the Synod of Bishops
US archbishop urges synod to support families in evangelisation
October 08, 2015
Archbishop Kurtz addressed the synod today
Letters from the Synod: special edition, October 4, 2015
October 04, 2015
Reports and commentary, from Rome and elsewhere, on the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops
1
2
3
4
→
Most Popular
Podcast: A ‘slap in the face’ for Cardinal Sarah
News cycle making you anxious? I’ve found an antidote – and so much more
The Vatican’s Embarrassing SciFi Creche
Keeping Quiet: The downside to “voluntary laicization”
Biden expected to overturn Trump administration restrictions on abortion within days
Why the Catholic Church Will Miss Donald Trump
Defeated by Truth and Raging Against Honor
Pilgrimage: An evolving presence in a changing culture
Donald Trump Was Bad for the Catholic Church
What Protestants Can Learn From Catholics, and Vice-Versa