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Production Date, 01 Aug 2023  https://unidir.org/events/whats-next-nuclear-risk-reduction Concerns over nuclear risks have been steadily growing over the past decade, leading the UN Secretary General António Guterres to describe the current situation as "a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War". As a response, efforts to address nuclear risk have started…

Bishop Robert Barron, who was elected as a delegate to the Catholic Church's upcoming global synod, says he trusts Pope Francis's leadership in the conference.

For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, Mission This working document, known as the Instrumentum laboris, was released on June 20, 2023, it will be the basis for the work of the participants in the General Assembly of the Synod on Synodality, which begins in the Vatican in October 2023 and concludes with a second Assembly one year later. A document of some sixty pages that incorporates the experiences of local Churches in every region of the world – Churches that are experiencing wars,...

The authors of the pre-Synod document frequently blame the Holy Spirit for their folly.

Many Catholics like myself who have followed the development of synodality under Pope Francis have been convinced that the decision to open synod voting to non-bishops was all but inevitable.

The Final Document from the African Synodal Continental Assembly submitted to the General Secretariat of the Synod in the Vatican underscores the Church in Africa has lived out Synodality since the Second Vatican Council. It highlights the need for recognition of the role women and youth play in the Church and proposes pastoral care that focuses on marriage and family and their challenges in modern-day Africa.

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Leaders of the continental synod efforts want U.S. Catholics to keep in mind that the synodal process is not over, as it’s a “generational project” that will take time.

With church leaders slated to meet in October for the next phase of the Synod on Synodality, the bishops conferences of the U.S. and Canada released a report summarizing the virtual meetings conducted with lay and ordained Catholics earlier this year.

“A word that frequently surfaced during the team’s discernment at the retreat was ‘messiness.’ Synodality is not always easy to comprehend; it can als...