by Rene Reid | Oct 18, 2023 | Books
John Wijngaards’s book, Christ’s Idea of Authority in the Church, is a guidebook intended for group discussions with a “synodal approach” in mind, i.e. not to be a debate on issues but rather a sharing of ideas with deep listening to one another. Broken down into...
by Rene Reid | Oct 18, 2023 | Staying Involved in Synodal Process
Four Synod delegates took a break from their deliberations on section B.2 of the Instrumentum Laboris to speak to the press about their experience this morning. Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, SDB, the archbishop of Rabat, Morocco, spoke about the “foundation” for...
by Rene Reid | Oct 17, 2023 | Staying Involved in Synodal Process
by NCR Staff Listen: Vatican experts Joshua McElwee and Christopher White interview one of the 13 members of the committee expected to draft the final document from Pope Francis’ ongoing summit on the future of the Catholic Church. Read more here » Aging...
by Rene Reid | Oct 16, 2023 | Staying Involved in Synodal Process
On the 45th anniversary of the election of Pope John Paul II, Synod participants assembled today to listen to the first reports from working groups on sections B.2.1 and B.2.2 of the Instrumentum Laboris, Dr. Paolo Ruffini reported at a press briefing this...
by Rene Reid | Oct 16, 2023 | Staying Involved in Synodal Process
In his remarks introducing the third module, or subject for spiritual conversation, to the Synodal Assembly this morning, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich said that “men and women receive the same baptism and the same Spirit” and “the baptism of women is not inferior to...
