A sense of urgency has been growing after the role of women emerged as a dominant theme when Catholics from across the globe were canvassed for their views ahead of a meeting of bishops and lay people – a synod – formally concluded Sunday.

The synod’s final document leaves key issues on women’s roles unresolved, with calls for greater inclusion going unanswered.View on euronews

Pope Francis closed the global Synod on Synodality’s final assembly on Sunday with a call for a Church that “hears the cry of the world” without being “blind” to the urgent issues facing our time. At the synod’s closing Mass in St.