This story appears in the Amoris Laetitia feature series. View the full series. A representative from of one of the working groups at the diocesan synod hands her group's scroll of resolutions to ...

NEW YORK – Key findings cited in the first U.S. diocesan synod report available for public consumption highlight a strong desire from parishioners for the church to better reach out to the ...

The Diocese of San Diego will soon be assuming a vanguard role in demonstrating how local churches can embrace the “synodality” promoted by Pope Francis. Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego has ...

Acting on Pope Francis' wish for a more "synodal" church at all levels and keying on five major themes of the pope’s recent exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy announced ...

SPRINGFIELD - Diocese of Springfield to celebrate 4th diocesan synod. Bishop Thomas John Paprocki says it has been more than half a century since the previous diocesan synod. The theme for this year's ...

While serving as apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis in 2015-16, then-Bishop Bernard Hebda prepared some advice for whomever would assume leadership of the vacant see: ...

Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, delivers his homily July 1, 2018, at the Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle in San Juan, Texas. Flores, chairman of the U.S. Conference of ...

Setting the course for the Springfield Catholic Diocese for the next decade, a synod of some 260 priests, deacons, religious brothers and sisters and laypersons from each of its 129 parishes voted to ...

The contribution of Charles Buttigieg (Synod's 10th anniversary, August 21) is all the more topical and pertinent. In reading his interesting article one gets the feel that the Diocesan Synod, started ...