Saturday, March 14, 2026

Our relationships should reflect God’s inclusive love

Why the Jesuits are going all in on training Catholics for synodality

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Why the Jesuits are going all in on training Catholics for synodality

Jesuit Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits, speaks at a news conference in Rome April 10, 2025. Credit: CNS photo/Lola Gomez

The Society of Jesus has started an ambitious transcontinental project linked to synodality. Its aim is to form diocesan priests, women and men religious and lay people in countries across the globe to accompany the discernment processes in the synodal journey of local churches.

Arturo Sosa, S.J., the superior general of the Jesuits, has commissioned John Dardis, S.J., an Irish-born Jesuit living at the Jesuit headquarters in Rome, to oversee this project. Recently, I sat down with Father Dardis to learn about this initiative.

The prayers that rise between breaths

 

A parishioner of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart whose husband was detained by immigration agents looks out her home's window in Washington, D.C., Oct. 10, 2025. (AP/Luis Andres Henao)

The prayers that rise between breaths

A feminist mom, a Jesuit son and the story of a rekindled Catholic

 

Kristin Grady Gilger did not understand the calling that led her son, Patrick Gilger, to become a Jesuit priest. She saw only "a lifetime of poverty, chastity, and obedience," prompting her to wonder "what college kid in his right mind would sign up for that?" (Courtesy of Gilger family)

A feminist mom, a Jesuit son and the story of a rekindled Catholic

Fourth Sunday of Lent: Use more than your eyes to see

 

Fourth Sunday of Lent: Use more than your eyes to see

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Friday, March 13, 2026

10 key questions Congress must ask about the Iran war

 

In Trump’s Iran conflict, it’s prosperity gospel vs. the Quran

In Trump’s Iran conflict, it’s prosperity gospel vs. the Quran

The final synod report on women: what it says, what it means and what’s next

 

Vatican Dispatch

The final synod report on women: what it says, what it means and what’s next

Pope Leo XIV greets women during a pastoral visit to the Church of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the working-class neighborhood of Quarticciolo in Rome March 1, 2026. Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media

The long, dramatic story of Study Group 5 has come to an end with the publication of the group’s final report on women’s ministries in the church. The most prominent call in this document, one of 15 being released by the Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod, is for “new forms of exercising authority” to be found for women, and affirming that women can and should hold non-ordained leadership roles in the church. It stops short, however, of articulating what those “new forms” should be.