(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...