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Vatican Announces New Synod Commission dedicated to the 24 Eastern Catholic Churches

Vatican Issues New Guidelines for Synod Implementation - 4 Keys for Understanding while Postponing Reports on Controversial Issues - FULL TEXT

#BreakingNews Pope Francis says the ‘Synod Final Document Forms Part of the Ordinary Papal Magisterium’

Pope Francis at the Synod Closing Mass says "...a missionary Church that walks with her Lord through the streets of the world." FULL TEXT Homily + Video

Vatican Synod's Final Document - Pope Decides Against an Exhortation - 9 Keys to Understanding with a Summary and FULL TEXT Link

Pope Francis' Final Synod Address "In our time marked by wars, we must be witnesses of peace, even by learning how to live out our differences in conviviality."

Vatican Synod Update Reveals Over a Thousand Modi to the Final Doc. - the Need for Canon Law and Importance of Eastern Catholic Churches

Vatican Synod Update in its Final Week Urges an End to War and Re-inculturising Catholicism in the Age of Post-Secularisation

Vatican Synod Update Reveals Pope Francis Decides Women Deacons Should Not be Addressed and Final Document Imagery

Vatican Synod Update Focuses on Decentralization, Common Easter, Laity, Latin America, Sudan, Welcoming Women and Youth

Vatican Synod Update Highlights Disability and Interfaith Dialogue, a "Mediterranean ecclesial assembly" for Migrants, and Listening Ministry

Vatican Synod Update Reveals Discussions on the Digital World, Evangelization and Culture, and the Role of Bishops’ Conferences

Vatican Synod Update Reveals a Focus on Disabilities, Priestly Celibacy, Role of Women

Vatican Synod Update Focused on Evangelization "to involve every baptized person in the Church" - “to expand the kingdom of God throughout the world.”

Vatican Synod Update a “great sign of hope” that offers Something to the Church of our Time and to Humanity

Vatican Synod Update Highlights Ecumenism with Input from Anglicans and Mennonites "holiness is the surest path to unity.”

Vatican Synod UPDATE Discussions on Deacons, Co-Responsibility of Parents, Women's Roles, and the Poor “the presence of the laity is indispensable"

Vatican Synod Members Raise Over Sixty Thousand in Funds for Gaza's Catholic Church - Day 6 Synod Briefing

Vatican Synod at Briefing says "The Church must build bridges and be a bridge itself."

Synod Members say "we must all be artisans of peace"