Jeanie Hannaman

By Fr. Robert McTeigue, SJ, Crisis Magazine - There’s good news and there’s bad news. The problem is that the good news isn’t very good, and we don’t know (yet?) how bad the bad news can be. Yes, you guessed it: I’m talking about “synodality.”.. The good news is that “synodality” might actually be meaningless. (That raises some questions about why, then, we are spending so much time, energy, and money on the topic; but let’s try to manage one conundrum at a time.) The bad news is that, precisely because “synodality” is a meaningless term (and “meaningless” will be defined below, shortly), it can be used to signify—or worse, justify—anything.

Fr. Robert McTeigue with Raymond Arroyo, EWTN, The World Over - Fr. Robert McTeigue, SJ talks about his recent column in Crisis Magazine, "What if 'Synodality' Means Nothing?", and how this, one of the late Pope Francis' signature initiatives, might carry forward into the reign of Pope Leo XIV. ...

By Carl E. Olson, Catholic World Report - On December 8, 1854, Pope Pius IX defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, the doctrine that God the Father chose and prepared a Mother for his only begotten Son who was “ever absolutely free of all stain of sin, all fair and perfect” and who “would possess that fullness of holy innocence and sanctity than which, under God, one cannot even imagine anything greater…”... On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII declared as dogma the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin.