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News
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Webinar on Synod
FABC OSC is holding a zoom webinar on Synod on Synodality on March 9, 2024, at 3.30pm Taipei time (India 1.00pm.). This will be our FABC- OSC Synod...
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Parish Priests for the Synod
Parish Priests for the Synod World Meeting of Parish Priests Vatican City, 3rd February 2024 Three hundred parish priests identified by the...
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Pope Francis launches study groups to analyze Synod on Synodality’s key issues
Pope Francis at the Synod on Synodality’s closing Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct. 29, 2023. | Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA By Courtney Mares Rome...
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Toward a constitutively Synodal Church: Boston College School of Theology and Ministry Third Intercontinental Massive Online Course (MOOC)
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_text] Date: March 2024Registration to access all videos: https://formaciononline.bc.eduThe ongoing Synod on...
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Webinar on Synod
FABC OSC is holding a two-hour long zoom webinar on Synod on Synodality on February 3, 2024, at 5.30 pm Taipei time (India 3 pm.). You are...
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My Experience of the Synod
Bishop Robert BarronNovember 21, 2023 Now that I’ve had a bit of time to readjust to my normal rhythm and to think through the rather extraordinary...
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Synod At Halftime: Bishop Rhoades On Synodality And Evangelization
By Peter Smith (OSV News) — Returning from the first session of the Synod on Synodality’s global, monthlong gathering in Rome, Bishop Kevin C....
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Synod has taught us to listen more, says RECOWA.
The RECOWA Secretary General, Fr. Vitalis Anaehobi, says that if there is one thing they are taking back home with them, it is the heightened need...
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A SYNODAL CHURCH IN MISSION
Synthesis Report of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops In the late afternoon of Saturday 28 October 2023, the members of the...
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Canadian Bishop highlights lived ‘experience’ of synodality
Bishop Raymond Poisson, the head of the diocese of Saint Jérôme-Mont-Laurier in Canada, looks forward to seeing “how the harmony between us will...
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Cardinal Ambongo: Synodality is a new way of being Church
At the end of the Synod General Assembly, Congolese Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo tells Vatican News that synodality is a “reflection on a new way of...
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HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS
CONCLUSION OF THE ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE SYNOD OF BISHOPS HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS St Peter's Basilica XXX Sunday in Ordinary...
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Synod Synthesis of XVI General Assembly First Session
Synod23 - Summary Report of the First Session of the Sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (October 4-29, 2023) Download...
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Pope: Love of God and neighbour is heart of everything
At the closing Mass of the General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis speaks of the “conversation of the Spirit,” experienced in "the...
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Synod Report: A Church that involves everyone and is close to world’s wounds
The Synthesis Report at the conclusion of the 16th General Assembly of the Synod on Synodality is published. Looking ahead to the second session in...
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Pope to Synod: the Holy Spirit is the protagonist
Pope Francis reminds the Synodal Assembly that the Holy Spirit is the gathering's protagonist, and offers his heartfelt thanks to all, as he...
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Pax Christi appeals to Pope and Synod to help Church embrace nonviolence
The Catholic Nonviolence Initiative urges Pope Francis and the Synod General Assembly to integrate the practice and spirituality of nonviolence into...
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Synod Briefing: ‘A new way to be Church’
At the Synod press briefing on Friday, Dr. Paolo Ruffini reveals how the final Synthesis Report will be voted at the Assembly, and Fr. Timothy...
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Fraternal delegates lend ‘ecumenical character’ to Synod press briefing
Thursday’s synod press briefing had a significant “ecumenical” character, with the Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity and two...
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Pope requests youngest Synod member be excused from classes
Wyatt Olivias, a 19-year-old student at the University of Wyoming, asked Pope Francis to sign a letter requesting he be excused from classes in...
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Pope Francis’ intervention in the Synod on 25th October(Translated from Spanish)
I like to think about the Church as the faithful people of God, holy and sinful, a people convoked and called with the power of the beatitudes and...
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Letter of theXVI Ordinary General Assemblyof the Synod of Bishops to the People of God
Dear sisters, dear brothers, As the proceedings of the first session of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops draw to a close,...
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Pope: I like to think of the Church as God’s faithful people
In an intervention delivered at the beginning of Wednesday afternoon’s General Congregation of the General Assembly, Pope Francis highlights the...
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Summary of the Synod press briefing on Wednesday
Cardinals Robert Prevost and Dieudonné Nzapalainga; Archbishop Timothy Broglio; and Doctor Nora Kofognotera Nonterah share their experiences of the...
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Synod General Assembly to People of God: ‘Church must listen to everyone’
Participants in the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops have approved a Letter to the People of God giving thanks for their...
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Synod: Testimony of French Bishop Alexandre Joly
During the presentation of the Twelfth General Congregation of the Synod, Bishop Alexandre Joly of Troyes, France, offers a reflection on...
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Spiritual Input by Sr Angelini at the Synod on October 23
General Congregation 16 - 23 October 2023 Spiritual insights "The least of all..." (Mk 4:30) Narrating parables rather than issuing proclamations...
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Spiritual Input by Fr Radcliffe at the Synod on October 23
General Congregations 16 – 23 October 2023 Spiritual Inputs The seed germinates Fr. Timothy Radcliffe OP In a few days’ time, we shall go home for...
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FABC President Cardinal Charles Bo presides over the Mass during the Synod at St Peter’s Basilica, October 23.
Homily The Long March Towards the Synodality of Hope, Peace and Justice Cardinal Charles BO, SDB Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar President, Federation...
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Briefing: Synod to publish ‘Letter to the People of God’ on 25 October
At the daily Synod briefing for journalists, the President of the Commission for Information, Paolo Ruffini, shares that the "Synthesis Document"...
Features
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A Faith Story from Malaysia
Sowing Seeds, Fostering Faith During the Japanese occupation of World War II when priests were about to be arrested Monsignor A Wachter urged...
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Synodal Church: Through Asian Stories
Cameron Highlands Catholic Community: Chapel of the Sacred Heart, Ringlet, Bertam Valley By Therese Clare Tan Yi-Ling The Chapel of the Sacred Heart...
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Season of Lent and Synodal Conversion
By Fr George Plathottam SDB Executive Secretary (FABC-OSC) The season of Lent beckons us to metanoia, a conversion of heart. Lent is not merely a...
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Season of Lent and Synodal Conversion
By Fr George Plathottam SDB Executive Secretary (FABC-OSC) The season of Lent beckons us to metanoia, a conversion of heart. Lent is not merely a...
Commentary
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Synod 2021-24: Advancing Vatican II
For a Synodal Church. Communion, Participation, Mission Giacomo Costa, SJ / October 13, 2023 In a famous speech delivered on December 4, 1962,...
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Synodality: Biblical Foundation, Theological Background, and Existential Understanding
By Bishop A. Peter Abir of Sultanpet, India “Enlarge the Space of your Tent” (Isa 54:2) Introduction - Let me begin my address...
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The Synod on Synodality
Richard G. DeClue Part 1: “Synods and the Synod on Synodality” Since Pope Francis announced the Synod on Synodality, the reactions to it have...
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Enlarge the Space of Your Tent
(Isaiah 54:2) Fr George Plathottam sdb Executive Secretary, FABC Office of Social Communication Have you ever lived in a tent? If not, it is worth...
Vatican
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New book on synodality presents Church leaders’ insights in the wake of Vatican II
A new book, presented Tuesday night at Rome’s LUMSA University, gathers together more than fifty interviews with lay people, religious, founders of...
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Synod to include pilgrimage for participants, prayer for migrants and refugees
At a press conference on Thursday, Sept 21, confirming details about participation in the Synod and the schedule for the General Assembly, synod...
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Without Prayer there will be no Synod
Letter from the Cardinal Mario Grech to the Bishops of the World Vatican, 15 September 2023 In a letter addressed to bishops and eparchs from all...
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Press Conference to present the initiative Together – Gathering of the People of God and the Ecumenical Prayer Vigil presided over by Pope Francis (30 September 2023), 08.09.2023
At 13.00 today, a press conference was livestreamed from the Holy See Press Office, Sala San Pio X, Via dell’Ospedale 1, to present the...
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Vatican offers details on how synod will work, media access
Xavière Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart, undersecretary of the synod, responds to a question during a news conference at the Vatican Sept. 8,...
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Pope Francis on Upcoming Synod Assembly in the in-flight press conference
Pope Francis responds to questions from the press aboard the return flight to Rome from Mongolia. | Vatican Media By Courtney Mares Aboard the...
Asia
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Season of Lent and Synodal Conversion
By Fr George Plathottam SDB Executive Secretary (FABC-OSC) The season of Lent beckons us to metanoia, a conversion of heart. Lent is not merely a...
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Season of Lent and Synodal Conversion
By Fr George Plathottam SDB Executive Secretary (FABC-OSC) The season of Lent beckons us to metanoia, a conversion of heart. Lent is not merely a...
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CHURCH IN ASIA
FABC’s Vision for a New Way of Being Church in Asia The Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) grew out of the historic gathering of 180...