(RNS) — I confess I fell asleep several times reading the new working document for the Synod on Synodality, which will have its second session this October. The working document, or Instrumentum ...

The instrumentum laboris for October's second session of the synod on synodality was issued this week, and as NCR's Vatican correspondent Christopher White reported, it differs from last year's ...

WASHINGTON — The Vatican’s Synod on Synodality issued a working document designed to set a framework for the second, or “continental,” stage of the three-year global process launched by Pope Francis ...

Participants in the assembly of the Synod of Bishops meeting in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Oct. 25, 2023. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – A working document for the final ...

The working document on the Synod on synodality, released by the Vatican on June 20, reflects an attempt to balance between two currents of this synodal process. On the one hand, there is the will to ...

Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the synod, speaks during a news conference at the Vatican on July 9, 2024, to present the working document for the second assembly of ongoing the Synod of ...

A committee of 22 people this week kicked off the writing process for the Synod on Synodality’s working document that will be the blueprint for discussions during the meeting of bishops in October.

The first two things that jump out when reading the working document, or instrumentum laboris, for the forthcoming synod, which was released June 20, are how much the document charts a new approach to ...

A printed copy of the "Instrumentum Laboris," or working document, for the world Synod of Bishops on synodality is seen in the Vatican press office June 20, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) The ...