A few years ago I sat with a student to talk about colleges and potential majors. I tried to offer him the best advice I could from the tradition of discernment, specifically the framework I’ve ...

As part of local and regional synodal meetings for Franciscan friars, Franciscans share a laugh as they take part in a table exercise in Prior Lake, Minn., in October 2024, in which participants ...

Communal discernment is a spiritual practice and a resource for all voters, grounded in the common good. We vote in solidarity, for the good of everyone, especially the most vulnerable. However, for a ...

Trenton Bishop David M. O'Connell officially begins the local process for his diocese's participation in preparations for the 2023 meeting of the world Synod of Bishops on synodality in St. Mary of ...

ROME – Since the beginning of Pope Francis’s Synod of Bishops on Synodality in 2021, the concept has been notoriously abstract and difficult to define. This week, however, rank-and-file pastors from ...

The Quaker and Anabaptist traditions approach biblical interpretation differently from most mainstream Christian traditions. While mainstream churches often select isolated texts to justify existing ...

The Church is at a crucial moment in its history, marked by its synodal journey. The Second Vatican Council, especially the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium (LG), describes the Church as a ...