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![Mongolian Catholics await Pope Francis’ arrival at Ulaanbaatar’s Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul on Sept. 2. Mongolian Catholics await Pope Francis’ arrival at Ulaanbaatar’s Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul on Sept. 2.](https://publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/20230914110944_b094202555eb04cef2d58f1f2cb6a3f841ccc04bfbb476a60017669fc2d604f0.jpg)
Papal Plane Diaries: Traveling With the Pope to ‘the Peripheries’ of Mongolia
EWTN journalist recaps recent historic trip.
![Colonnade of St. Peter’s Square Colonnade of St. Peter’s Square](https://publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/20230915100940_6cf46316-2cfe-4c2c-83f3-0f5d4f4e2ac3.jpg)
Synods Through the Ages in the Catholic Church
COMMENTARY: Synods have an ancient and rich history of articulating and helping to preserve the faith.
![The Catholic Church is by no means the only denomination to suffer a sharp numerical-institutional decline in the last half-century. The Catholic Church is by no means the only denomination to suffer a sharp numerical-institutional decline in the last half-century.](https://publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/20230914100912_be853413f2995185fa8263450f9c2ef461966bcb4fe18fb3e22de3a81eae5e7b.jpg)
Catholicism in America: Whither the Bloom?
COMMENTARY: Recalling Cardinal James Gibbons’ vision of a Church, there is consolation in the fact that although roses lose their blossoms in winter, they bloom again in summer.
![Pope Francis leads a session of the Synod on the Family inside the Vatican's Synod Hall Oct. 10, 2014. Pope Francis leads a session of the Synod on the Family inside the Vatican's Synod Hall Oct. 10, 2014.](https://publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/20230914090944_e4d9006aa66b60989ae79444f64ae4a8ac81ab78ea303fcd7847bbbd371c713d.jpg)
The Holy Spirit and the Synod on Synodality
COMMENTARY: To insist that the Holy Spirit is always present in synodal structures or in this synodal process is a case that has to be made, not simply asserted
![Étienne Parrocel (1696-1775), “Jesus and the Samaritan Woman” Étienne Parrocel (1696-1775), “Jesus and the Samaritan Woman”](https://publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/2020082800080_2ac79b0078d520219c5e6aef75b6a072bd832048b145da415c4f25699ba1ac2f.jpeg)
On Christian Democracy and the Lost Tradition of Courtesy
COMMENTARY: Courtesy is an old-fashioned and out-of-fashion word, but it’s an up-to-date idea.
![The English Carmelite Sister Ruth Burrows has written extensively about the temptation to reduce prayer to technique. The English Carmelite Sister Ruth Burrows has written extensively about the temptation to reduce prayer to technique.](https://publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/20230912100920_634c835bf7a11f825d0fbebf0b57cf0e612136e2b6703a9050cc198fb033ab06.jpg)
Learning to Pray: Advice I Learned From Sister Ruth
COMMENTARY: If prayer is not an activity and it cannot be reduced to a ‘technique,’ then how can we understand what the essence of prayer really is?
![The document for present the document for the continental stage of the Synod on Synodality is released Oct. 27, 2022, at the Vatican. Regular flow of information from the Vatican to the international media during the Oct. 4-21 event will be will be a key element. The document for present the document for the continental stage of the Synod on Synodality is released Oct. 27, 2022, at the Vatican. Regular flow of information from the Vatican to the international media during the Oct. 4-21 event will be will be a key element.](https://publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/20230912140940_3a2561e8e7764f6482a24767b430ff5adff589982ef4e7f87131a9f5ad6bef41.jpg)
Synodal Secrecy: Is a Tightly-Controlled Information Flow the Best Way to Go?
COMMENTARY: The Vatican spokesman has said media will have limited access to Synod on Synodality's sessions in keeping with past synods, and information reports on discussions will keep participants comments anonymous.
![BBC broadcaster Malcolm Muggeridge. BBC broadcaster Malcolm Muggeridge.](https://publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/20230912130936_a3db7e28-3ab9-4ca5-9f6d-7c9e6afbdb5a.jpg)
Pulitzer, Muggeridge and the Responsibility of the Journalist
COMMENTARY: ‘All my words for the Word…’
![From left, Foreign Affairs Minister of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Foreign Affairs Minister of the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan participate in the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House on Sept. 15, 2020 in Washington. From left, Foreign Affairs Minister of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Foreign Affairs Minister of the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan participate in the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House on Sept. 15, 2020 in Washington.](https://publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/20230911080932_fb538d8b06f0b0783e2b7aa2ebbbd28eccff4c7622913a64e494af1cd71c254d.jpg)
This Sept. 11, Let’s Also Remember the Abraham Accords
COMMENTARY: For purely political reasons, what began a splendid process of peace that continues to bear fruit has not gotten the attention it deserves.