María Montserrat Alvarado, president and chief operating officer of EWTN News, as the next prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication

The Vatican publishes guidelines for the implementation of the Synod on Synodality, with a view to 2028

Four stages — Recollecting, Interpreting, Orienting, Celebrating — will accompany the local Churches, Episcopal Conferences, and continental groupings of Churches on the path leading to the Ecclesial Assembly to be held in the Vatican in October 2028. Two documents will be prepared at the conclusion of each assembly. A common question will guide the entire process.

Courage, a Catholic-Orthodox ministry that supports gay people, has filed a complaint against the Vatican Synod for slander and defamation

Courage International, a ministry founded more than four decades ago to accompany men and women seeking to live according to the Catholic Church’s teaching on chastity, issued an unusually forceful statement on May 8 accusing the Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod of publishing what it called a “false and unjust” portrayal of its work