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Cardinal Mario Grech and Pope Francis at the conclusion of the Synod on Synodality on Oct. 28, 2023. / Credit: National Catholic Register / Vatican Media National Catholic Register, Mar 29, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). If Cardinal Mario Grech held ne...

The Maltese cardinal, who heads the Vatican's Secretariat for the Synod, stated in a recent interview that a female diaconate (unspecified whether ordained or...

With his lengthy and debated Synod of Bishops on Synodality set to wrap later this year, Pope Francis took several steps this weekend to bolster the process in the lead up to a meeting that will bring four years of global consultation to a close.

They will continue to focus on the theme: “For a synodal church: communion, participation and mission.”

VATICAN—The faith is immutable, but doctrine can develop and has in fact developed over time. This was pointed out by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the archbishop of Vienna and one of the Church’s top intellectuals. The Bohemian-born Dominican, who taught dogmatic theology and headed the team that produced the Catechism of the Catholic Church in

NEWS ANALYSIS: Some Synod on Synodality Participants Seem Intent on Radically Altering the Way the Church Teaches

“Living Tradition bobs along like a cork through the stream of evolving dogma. What a pleasant euphemism for the old heresy of dogmatic historicism.”...

Tradition “was a major point of discussion at the Second Vatican Council,” Father Ormond Rush said Monday.

Father Rush addressed the synod members and Pope Francis on Oct. 23 before they review a draft of a document summarizing their conversations over the past thr...

In a way, maybe we are living all together as baptized Christians in the synodal process in the same way that the council fathers at Vatican II experienced collegiality in their role as bishops.