Social Media Ideas for Audiam: A Listening Heart For A Synodal Church

Canadian bishops at plenary hear about progress on creating a 'listening' church

 The contrast between Latin American-Caribbean and Canadian progress toward creating a synodal – or "listening" – church could not have been starker than in two presentations Canad...

Listening to the world speaking to the Society of Jesus

There will never be a synodal church without synodal seminaries

Seminary formation must prepare future priests to understand authority not as power exercised alone, but as a ministry of listening, discernment, responsibility and service within...

How does the Church serve and listen to the world? Leo XIV answers by explaining a constitution of the Second Vatican Co...

Pope’s General Audience, September 2, 2026, on the Church Listening to and Serving the World The post How does the Church serve and listen to the world? Leo XIV answers by explaini...

Pope Leo’s Superpower: Listening

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New book chronicles Cardinal Advincula’s pastoral journey in Manila

MANILA — Cardinal Jose Advincula of Manila’s homilies have been compiled in a new book that chronicles five years of his pastoral ministry in the archdiocese. Titled “Audiam: A Lis...

Learning to Listen before You Speak - Your Nightly Prayer - October 16

True discipleship begins with a heart that is quiet and attentive to others out of Christ's love for them.

The Bureaucracy Loves Synodality

James Bradbury, The Catholic Herald Ask a Vatican official about synodality and you will get, at minimum, ten minutes of unbroken conviction: about listening, about the People of...

How do we know if we are listening to the Holy Spirit or only to ourselves?

The Catholic tradition is the catalog of Catholics responding to the Holy Spirit in their own time. It is also a catalog of how previous generations of Christians were often blinde...

A sounded gospel

Editor’s note: One way the ELCA is a connected church is through Lutherans’ shared love of music. As Reformation Day approaches, we’re sharing a series of articles exploring how Ma...

Listen Technologies, Ampetronic Bring Auri Assistive Listening System to Houses of Worship

Ampetronic and Listen Technologies' Auracast-based Auri assistive listening system offers houses of worship an ADA-compliant, flexible audio accessibility solution to foster greate...

Do We Have Ears to Hear Our Own Correction? 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Previously in this Gospel, Jesus has spoken about authority in His Church.  This Sunday, He shows us how it works. Gospel (Read Mt. 18:15-20) This Sunday, Jesus teaches His discipl...

Hear this year’s ACL Synod Podcast

Hear this year’s ACL Synod podcast — 30 minutes to encourage and equip Sydney Synod members. There are also links to book for the ACL Synod Dinner, the Synod Survival Guide and oth...

Pope Leo: Take Time Out of the Daily Bustle to ‘Listen to the Melodious Voice’ of Creation

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A four letter word

Diane Montagna posted on her Substack (I have one now also) a piece by distinguished liturgist Fr. Alcuin Reid who commented on Leo XIV’s General Audience on Wednesday 26 August. I...

'Synodality' was a Vatican buzzword. 5 years on, it's still changing the church.

The synodal shift "doesn't make a lot of noise, but it's something deep," said Sr. Nathalie Becquart. "There is still a lot to do, but people are more and more confident that this...

Vatican Unveils New “Synodal Proposals”: Laity to Participate in Bishops’ Ad Limina Visits and Binding Agreements Betwee...

Shared criteria for discerning new institutes, a delegate for consecrated life in every diocese, and contracts or memoranda of understanding covering formation, gender equality, re...

Keeping an eye on the “Amoris laetitia” confab in Rome – 7-14 October

It has been 10 years since Amoris laetitia (chose your own translation) was emitted into the world and, of course, its time to sit in circles and talk about it while predetermined...

Cosmos and Church: Reawakening Our Ecclesial Imaginations with St. Hildegard of Bingen

Corynne Staresinic on the Divine Mercy. 

A Church Close to the People: Jesuit Pastoral Mission and the Ministry of Accompaniment in ANW Province

Synod Study Group Proposes Broader Role for Catholics in Bishops’ Ad Limina Visits

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What if your searching had a community?

“A glimpse of what God is doing among us”

Russell Powell at SydneyAnglicans.net reports on Archbishop Kanishka Raffel’s Presidential Address to Synod today – “A Mandarin-speaking woman who first encountered church through...

Tertianship: From Theory to a New Heart