Synod Journey Blog

Pope Francis led us all to the re-discovery of the sacredness of listening to others, of genuine dialogue and accompaniment.

Empowering Lay Ecclesial Ministers to be co-responsible for the unleashing of synodality is a concrete, do-able step.

There's something "off" in my understanding and experience of Lay Ecclesial Ministry.

Geography, culture, leadership, technology: all of these influence our "place" and so, a single approach cannot be effective.

Join in laying the foundations for the conversion to a synodal Church by first understanding the building blocks.

Baptism matters! We die and rise to new life, a new Spirit within, a new way of living. But do we? Synodality is counting on it!

I'm a practical sort. I like to operationalize ideas...to figure out how to "do" something.

The most sacred days of our liturgical year are upon us. As I write this, Pat Clement, one of the co-founders of the Pentecost Vigil...

“To pray means to change,” Douglas V. Steere writes in his foreword to Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Prayer. I would amend this to say...

Pope Francis states that the synodal process is not an isolated event, rather it heralds a new way of being Church: "Synodality is a...

It's Monday October 9th and I'm writing from a specatcular Jekyll Island, GA. Had no power on Saturday so I couldn't follow what was...

It was a challenge, but it was worth it! We, my wife and I, recently planned and presented a program at our parish to raise awareness...

It's an odd time to be an American Catholic. While much of the world is praying, watching and waiting for the Holy Spirit's inspiration...

Do you remember when you were a kid, and the tug of war was about to begin? There'd be someone, usually an adult, calling out to us,...

Welcome guest blogger and PVP Leadership Team member Karen Jennings! Karen's relatively new to our Team and brings to us her many...

"The ongoing synodal process is not only the most important moment in the life of the Catholic Church since Vatican II. It's also the...

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." — Saint Augustine Here's what I do not...

Have you ever participated in an organized group process where you were asked your opinion, but you doubted if what you said would make...

This is the final blog in this series intended to provide language and logic for why synodality is the way forward for the Church in the...

This continues our 5-part series on "Why Synodality?" with the last two blogs in this series written specifically for clergy, and by...