Many Catholic women followed the October 2023 and 2024 sessions of the Synodal Assembly For a Synodal Church with a sense of hope and anticipation. When, following an extensive global consultation, the document for the continental stage,...
On September 30, an ecumenical prayer vigil will be held in St. Peter’s Square under the banner, “Together: Gathering the People of God,” opening a three-day spiritual retreat in preparation for the first session of the XVIth ordinary Ge...
Months of isolation, online classes, meetings, family gatherings and reduced social contact have shrunk the breadth of our horizons considerably. The monotony of the routine is seeping in: pray, work, eat, sleep, repeat. And while the av...
“Lay people are, put simply, the vast majority of the People of God. The minority – ordained ministers – are at their service.” In these lines, drawn from his Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, On the Joy of the Gospel, Pope Franci...