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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Catholics gathered at the continental level say the Catholic Church must be united, not uniform, and embrace its many forms of expression throughout the world, said members of the synod preparatory commission after a weeklong meeting at the Vatican. I think one of the most important things we have experienced during these ecclesial, continental assemblies, is that there is in fact more than one way of being the church, said Archbishop Timothy Costelloe of Perth, a member

Catholics gathered at the continental level say the Catholic Church must be united, not uniform, and embrace its many forms of expression throughout the world, said members of the synod preparatory commission after a weeklong meeting at the Vatican.

Catholics gathered at the continental level say the Catholic Church must be united, not uniform, and embrace its many forms of expression throughout the world.

Read through recent statements from the Vatican, and notice how the word “synodal” is used. More often than not, it implies a willingness to question.

The tensions and diversity in the Catholic Church reported in the national reports to the Synod of Bishops are not the end of the process, just like tensions at the Second Vatican Council did not have the final word, said one of the undersecretaries of the synod office.

For our latest "Inside the Vatican" deep dive, we interviewed top officials in the Vatican’s synod office and ordinary Catholics holding listening sessions around the world—including someone who is more critical of the synod.

It can take a few tips from US and German Catholic leaders on gender equality and sexuality

The "main protagonist" in the Catholic Church's two-year synodal process now underway "is the Holy Spirit, who is ready to guide us on this journey," Xavière Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart told a U.S. audience April 3. "The aim of a synod is to foster communion and build a consensus," Sister Becquart said to an audience made up primarily of LGBTQ Catholics via Zoom from Rome. "If we really listen to one another … if we listen deeply, we will discer...