Synodality

Swiss bishop calls for women’s ordination, end to celibacy ahead of synod

09/25/2023 at 11:02 AM By Kevin Edward White
By AC Wimmer, Catholic News Agency, September 25, 2023 A Swiss bishop called for the end of mandatory priestly celibacy and for the ordination of women in an interview published Sunday, just days ahead of his participation at the Synod on Synodality in Rome next week.  “It’s... read more

Synod: no German-speaking language group planned

09/23/2023 at 9:09 AM By Kevin Edward White
By I. Media, September 12, 2023 At a press conference held in Rome on September 8, 2023, the Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, Paolo Ruffini, announced that, unlike in previous Synods, there would be no German-speaking language group at the forthcoming Synod on the Future of the... read more

The Holy Spirit and the Synod on Synodality

09/15/2023 at 2:10 PM By Kevin Edward White
COMMENTARY: To insist that the Holy Spirit is always present in synodal structures or in this synodal process is a case that has to be made, not simply asserted By Father Raymond J. De Souza, National Catholic Register, September 14, 2023 The synodal process on synodality for a synodal... read more

Cardinal Müller on Synod: ‘This is the great hour of manipulation’

09/14/2023 at 10:23 PM By Kevin Edward White
The Catholic Herald, September 14, 2023 On Tuesday Cardinal Müller gave a frank interview to Spanish Catholic news website InfoVaticana, in which he has expressed his grave concern about multiple aspects of the upcoming Synod Assembly on synodality and the current state of the... read more

How to Be a Catholic in the Synodality Era

09/05/2023 at 11:35 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Raymond Kowalksi, OnePeterFive, September 5, 2023 A Voice from the Pews We know now that the culmination of the Francis Papacy will occur in October of this year (regardless of whether he is still around to see it).  That is when the Synod on Synodality will take place. This has been... read more

‘Synodality’: A new word for an ancient reality

09/03/2023 at 9:12 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, Chicago Catholic, August 30, 2023 Pope Francis has insisted that for the church to be true to itself, we must act in a more synodal way. This is in keeping with the vision of renewal promoted in the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, which stressed the common... read more

The false front is showing on this Potemkin Synod

08/31/2023 at 7:38 PM By Kevin Edward White
The meaning of the Synod for many of its proponents is the elimination, or radical alteration, of “structures of exclusion,” chief among them the Church’s traditional natural law moral theology as exemplified in Veritatis Splendor. By Larry Chap, Catholic World Report, August 31,... read more

SYNODALITY AND THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH

08/30/2023 at 3:05 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Michael Hanby, First Things, August 2023 Facts and great personages in world history occur, as it were, twice . . . the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” The Synod on Synodality seems destined to confirm Marx’s words (themselves a revision of Hegel). The tragedy arises from... read more

Pope Francis: Synod on Synodality ‘Truly Important’ Despite Being ‘of Little Interest to the General Public’

08/26/2023 at 4:54 PM By Kevin Edward White
The Pope spoke about the significance of the synod nearly one month ahead of the first global assembly, taking place at the Vatican Oct. 4-28. By Courtney Mares, National Catholic Register /CNA, August 26, 2023 Pope Francis acknowledged Saturday that the upcoming Synod on Synodality may be... read more

Greek Catholic Bishop: Synod on Synodality Is Not Like Eastern Synods

08/26/2023 at 4:48 PM By Kevin Edward White
Greek Byzantine Catholic Bishop Manuel Nin stresses that Synod means, above all, journeying with Christ and warns against “Christian parliamentarianism.” By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, August 24, 2023 VATICAN CITY — Despite claims to the contrary, the... read more

Synod on Synodality: Read the Final List of Delegates

08/21/2023 at 6:15 AM By Kevin Edward White
The delegates are made up of representatives selected by bishops’ conferences and Eastern Catholic Churches, leaders in the Roman Curia, and 120 delegates personally selected by Pope Francis. By Edward Pentin/CNA Staff, National Catholic Register, September 22, 2023 The Vatican on Sept. 21... read more

The serious problems with the “radical inclusion” delusion

07/30/2023 at 10:27 PM By Kevin Edward White

Tucho and the Teutons: What the new DDF prefect thinks of Germany

07/26/2023 at 10:01 AM By Kevin Edward White

The Orwellian Synod

07/23/2023 at 7:50 AM By Kevin Edward White

Synodality and Sanctity

07/19/2023 at 10:00 PM By Kevin Edward White

How true is synodality to the actual vision of Vatican II?

07/14/2023 at 7:24 AM By Kevin Edward White

Cupich urges German Church to overcome divisions

07/13/2023 at 6:06 PM By Kevin Edward White

The “Synodal Process:” Talking a New Church into Being?

07/12/2023 at 7:07 AM By Kevin Edward White

A New “Synodal Church” Undermines the Catholic Church

06/29/2023 at 2:32 PM By Kevin Edward White

Synod on Synodality document outlines discussion questions for October assembly

06/20/2023 at 3:29 PM By Kevin Edward White