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Synod of Bishops on the Amazon

People near San Rafael, Bolivia, march to Santa Cruz de la Sierra Sept. 25, 2019, to defend earth and its resources. (CNS photo/Edgard Garrido, Reuters)

World

Church must make 'preferential option for the Amazon,' bishop says

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 18, 2019|3 Min Read

Rita Means, tribal council representative with the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Sister Priscilla Solomon, a member of the Ojibway people and of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Sault Ste. Marie, and Archbishop Donald J. Bolen of Regina, Saskatchewan, attend a news conference with indigenous leaders from North America in Rome Oct. 17, 2019. Members of the delegation spoke about their own challenges and connections to indigenous people from South America who are meeting at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

World

North American indigenous support Amazonian indigenous at synod

Cindy Wooden|Oct 17, 2019|3 Min Read

Father Justino Sarmento Rezende, an expert in indigenous spirituality from Brazil, speaks at a news conference to discuss the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican Oct. 17, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

World

Celibacy is a gift, not an obstacle, indigenous priest says

Junno Arocho Esteves|Oct 17, 2019|2 Min Read

Bishop Wellington de Queiroz Vieira of Cristalandia at a Holy See press office briefing, Oct. 16, 2019. (Daniel Ibanez/CNA)

World

Brazilian bishop: Lack of holiness among clerics an obstacle to vocations

Hannah Brockhaus|Oct 16, 2019|2 Min Read

Prelates attend a canonization Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. (Credit: AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino via Crux)

World

Amazon prelate floats alternative to married clergy: Send some Roman priests home

Inés San Martín|Oct 16, 2019|5 Min Read

Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego talks with Father Bernardo Estrada as they arrive for a session of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican Oct. 15, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

World

U.S. bishops speak at synod for the Amazon

Carol Glatz|Oct 15, 2019|4 Min Read

Anitalia Pijachi, a member of the Ocaina Huitoto indigenous group from Colombia and an observer at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon, is pictured Oct. 11, 2019, near the Vatican. She said she agreed to participate in the synod to carry a message from the elders of her people to the elder of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis. (CNS photo/Barbara J. Fraser).

World

Indigenous woman brings message from her elders to pope as church elder

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 14, 2019|4 Min Read

Jesuit Father Alfredo Ferro celebrates Mass July 14, 2019, in the indigenous community of Nazaret, Colombia. The first week of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon saw support for the priestly ordination of married indigenous men, impassioned pleas for respect for indigenous culture and denunciations of violence against the Earth. (CNS photo/David Agren)

World

Ministry, ecology, mission are main themes at synod's first week

Cindy Wooden|Oct 14, 2019|5 Min Read

Pope Francis leads a session of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican Oct. 8. (Vatican Media/Catholic News Service)

Global perspective is the glass-half-full case for a Synod of Bishops

John L. Allen Jr.|Oct 14, 2019|5 Min Read

Father Martin Lasarte, from Uruguay, pictured in 2015 in Angola, is a Salesian, appointed by Pope Francis as a synod father for the Oct. 6-27 Synod of Bishops on the Amazon region. (Salesianas Angola via Crux)

World

Synod member, weary of married priest debate, rues getting stuck in ’70s

Inés San Martín|Oct 11, 2019|6 Min Read

Celestina Fernandes da Silva, a Catholic activist, waters flowers in front of her home in the Wapishana indigenous village of Tabalascada, Brazil, April 3, 2019. Franciscan Father Joao Messias Sousa, who works among indigenous in the Amazon, said the people believe "God is in all things, but those things are not gods." (CNS Photo/Paul Jeffrey)

Faith

God in all things: Synod looks at indigenous 'theology of creation'

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 10, 2019|4 Min Read

Brazilian Bishop Wilmar Santin of Itaituba speaks at a press briefing following a session of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican Oct. 10, 2019. Also pictured is Cristiane Murray, vice director of the Vatican Press Office. (CNS photo/Junno Arocho Esteves)

Church ‘can’t sacralize, nor Satanize’ every indigenous practice, bishop says

Inés San Martín|Oct 10, 2019|4 Min Read

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