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Meetings that have just finished. documents from those are coming in. the next stage is discernment, so the synod process is an advisory body to the pope, when he will decide if and how the church needs to be reformed and what can be done with policy decisions in rome and what can be done on the ground. many churches are instituting reforms they can do without the policy change, so he has got this big programme that he is very passionately committed to. i wouldn't be surprised if we see a change in the papacy before that is true. . ., change in the papacy before that is true. ., ~ i. change in...

The synodal process of listening to the Holy Spirit and to one another is drawing hundreds of students and faculty to share their experiences of the church at local Catholic campuses and Newman centers.

Spanish-speaking Catholics did a superb job coming together for a full week to talk about dreams, visions and challenges for the church in the continent, writes Hosffman Ospino, who hopes U.S. Catholic do something similar, and soon.

Reaching out to Catholics who have grown estranged from the church and being in touch with one's own trauma can help dispel cynicism and mistrust of the synod.