Collaborative Initiatives Involving CTEWC Members
CENTERS (Catholic Education Network to Enact and Resource Synodality), Loyola University Chicago
III Congreso de Teologanda, October 8-10, 2026, “Dignidad y Equidad: Justicia para las mujeres en la Iglesia y en la sociedad”
The 80th Annual Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America, June 11-14, 2026, “Theology in a Synodal Church”
Published Works By CTEWC Members
Abraham, Kochurani and Christine Burke, eds. Ecclesia of Women as Synodal Third Space. (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2026).
Aihiokhai, SimonMary Asese. “Compassionate Imagination/Re-Existing/Hope: Embracing a Deliberate Turn to the Promptings of the Spirit for a Synodal Church.” Religions 14, no. 10 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14101245.
_____. “Palaver as a Synodal Praxis of Belonging in the Catholic Church.” Journal of Moral Theology 14, no. 2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.55476/001c.142749.
Autiero, Antonio. “Sinodalità – Riforma Della Chiesa. Maschilità, Paternità, Pastoralità.” Il Regno, October 2022.
Bong, Sharon A. “Of Radicals, Excommunicates and Sojourners.” The First, January 1, 2023.
Brigham, Erin, and Maureen O’Connell, “Synodality and the Future of Community Organizing,” ch. 6 in Empowering People Through Encounter: Catholic Social Teaching and Community Organizing, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2025, 101-114.
Catta, Grégoire. “French Bishops, Integral Ecology and A Synodal Church.” The First, February 1, 2020.
Cimperman, Maria, RSCJ. “Beginning Reflections on the October 2023 Synod Assembly.” The First, January 1, 2024.
_____. “Religious Life in a Synodal Key: A Virtuous Beginning.” In Bothering to Love: James F. Keenan’s Retrieval and Reinvention of Catholic Ethics, edited by Christopher P. Vogt and Kate Ward. Orbis Books, 2024.
Dávila, MT. “Carta de Amor a Las Amistades Imposibles.” The First, November 1, 2023.
Egan, Anthony. “The Ethical Dimension of the Synodality Process.” The First, January 1, 2023.
Garcia, Yohan. “Pope Leo XIV: Building Bridges through Solidarity and Synodality,” American Catholic Studies, vol. 136 no. 3 (2025): 23-29.
Hrudayaraj, Bala Kiran Kumar. “Indian Church as a Catalyst of Social Trust.” The First, May 1, 2025.
Ilo, Stan Chu. “Pope Francis Is Visiting Africa at a Defining Moment in His Pontificate.” The First, February 1, 2023.
_____. “The Gifts We Have Received: Reflection on an African Synodal Palaver Series.” The First, October 1, 2024.
Jackson-Meyer, Kate. “A Proposal for a Clergy Abuse Truth and Reconciliation Commission Feasibility Study.” The First, December 1, 2023.
Joseph, Jaisy. “Ecclesiology via Ethnography: Studying the Church through a Discernment of Concrete Ecclesial Life.” Theological Studies 85(4), March 2024, 567-589.
_____. “The Synodal Church as Leaven and Pilgrim: An Interstitial Epistemology for an Interstitial Church.” Critical Theology 7, no. 2 (2025): 9–16.
Kaithavana, Geevarghese. “The Joy of Listening and Walking Together.” The First, December 1, 2021.
Keenan, James F., SJ. “Restoring Social Trust: From Populism to Synodality.” Theological Studies 84, no. 1 (2023): 110–33. https://doi.org/10.1177/00405639221150757.
Klöcker, Katharina. “Between Disappointment and Relief: The German Church on the Synodal Path.” The First, October 1, 2022.
McCarthy, Eli. “Living Synodality: Catholic Community Organizing and Centering Nonviolence.” Journal of Catholic Social Thought 21, no. 2 (2024): 342–58. https://doi.org/10.5840/jcathsoc202421221.
Miranda, Elsie M., and Cristina L. H. Traina, eds. The Meaning of Being Human: Synodal Considerations. Paulist Press, 2025.
Montecel, Xavier M. “Eucharist, Synodality, and Ethics: Making Connections.” Religions 14, no. 11 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14111379.
Mueller, Jens. “On Being a Listening Church: The U.S. Catholic Church and Black Lives Matter.” Religions 14, no. 12 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14121527.
_____. “Catholic Tradition under the Condition of Interculturality.” The First, February 1, 2024.
_____. “Synodality and the Non-Simultaneity of Moral Attitudes.” The First, April 1, 2025.
Ngah, Solange. “Fraternal Communion as Prototype for Synodality.” The First, May 1, 2023.
Nonterah, Nora K. “What Is a Synodal Church without Synodal ‘Domestic Churches’?” The First, November 1, 2023.
Nonterah, Nora K. and Nnaemeka C. Ali, OMI. “Synodality Over Clericalism: Significance for Women and Youth in the Church.” The First, November 1, 2024.
O’Connell, Maureen. “Four Headlines from the Global Synod for Ethicists.” The First, January 1, 2025.
Opongo, Elias Omondi. “Populist Authoritarianism and Catholic Political Ethics: A Framework for a Moral Review.” Religions 15, no. 6 (2024). https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15060660.
Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E., ed. African Synodal Theology: A Tall Tree Is as Strong as Its Roots. Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 2026.
Rop, Veronica. “The African Synod: The Participation of Women in Reconciliation Justice and Peace.” The First, May 9, 2012.