Jeanie Hannaman

By Fr. Gerald E. Murray, The Catholic Thing - The unending process that is the Synod on Synodality has taken a new and unexpected turn. The current “Implementation Phase” of the three-year synodal path, following the conclusion of last Fall’s Synodal Assembly in Rome, has now become the preparatory phase for something no one has ever heard of in the Catholic Church, namely an “Ecclesial Assembly.”... In a March 15 letter to the bishops of the world, the General Secretariat of the Synod announced that it will now “start a process of accompaniment and evaluation of the implementation phase” of the conclusions of the Synodal Assembly’s Final Document by the dioceses of the world.

By Thomas Edwards, Catholic Herald - Hundreds of Catholics gathered at Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s famous Palm Beach private club and residence, for a prayer and fellowship event on the Feast of St Joseph... The 19 March event at the famous location in Florida was organised by Catholics for Catholics, a group that seeks to unite conservative ideals with Catholic teachings and promote a shared appreciation of US heritage... Speakers included the popular Catholic YouTuber Dr Taylor Marshall; Bishop Joseph Strickland, the emeritus Bishop of Tyler, Texas, who was asked to step down by Pope Francis ...

By Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency - (Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the synod) said it boils down to the need to have a synodal mentality and “simply publishing a ‘document’ is not enough for what emerged in the two phases of the synodal process to be implemented in the Church’s life.”... Pope Francis adopted the final document of the 2024 assembly into his ordinary magisterium, the whole Church is “required” to live the third phase, the implementation, of the synod... This new process and its steps “constitute a map for the conversion and renewal of the Church in a synodal sense” ...