The task of becoming a truly synodal church will demand sacrifices from all the baptized, writes Zac Davis.

In this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle interviews Julia McStravog, a senior advisor on the Synod on Synodality at the U.S.C.C.B., to get an inside look into how the U.S. church organized itself to carry out the national and continental phases of the synod, and how those phases inform the ongoing meeting in Rome.

The League is a dating app that operates on exclusivity and ambition. Has it changed the world of online dating?

A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Delaney Coyne

Through the centuries, there have been many disputes between Jesuits and Dominicans. But when the Jesuits are in real trouble, they know they can turn to the Dominicans for help.

Many Catholics overcame their antisemitic prejudices to rescue and save Jewish people in danger, “sometimes at the cost of their lives,” some Jewish and Catholic historians said at an international conference.

The protest was organized over social media, where it was dubbed “Call to the Dáil,” drawing participants from far-right groups and individuals nurturing a host of grievances and anxieties about contemporary Irish society, from Covid-19 conspiracies to immigration and transgender issues, housing shortages and the economy.

Surely the problems facing the modern family, the Amazon, the universal church cannot be boiled down to a single headline.

A Homily for the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein

Julian Paparella, who was 25 years old when he addressed hundreds of bishops in that assembly, joins Zac and Ashley to shed light on the dynamic at work inside synods.

Pope Francis draws inspiration, especially from psalms and legal texts, to remind humans of our shared status with creation.

A Reflection for the Feast of Pope St. John XXIII, by Michael O'Brien

St. Bakhita was able to experience service not as slavery, but as an expression of the free gift of self.

Pope Francis today called for “the immediate release” of the more than 100 Israeli hostages taken by Hamas into Gaza and, at the same time, expressed his deep concern at the “total siege” imposed by Israel on Gaza.

Brian Doyle's essays, fiction and poetry all offered powerful reflections on finding the beautiful and the divine amid life’s struggles.

“The synod is not a council. It does not take decisions as a council does. Its task is to discern, not decide,” one synod member explained to me.

Can I get an amen?

As a superior general and then as a bishop, the cardinal said he had attended six previous synods, and this is “the most diverse synod I’ve ever participated in.”

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.