One Hour Live from Vatican City

Join Loyola students, along with peers from thirteen other Jesuit universities, as they engage with Global Synod planners, sharing their questions and hopes for the 21st-century synodal Church in a live stream from Rome.

Graduate students from the Loyola Institute for Ministry are participating in an immersion experience on synodality in Rome during the Second Session of the XVI General Assembly of Bishops in October 2024. Dr. Emily Jendzejec, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Studies, is guiding the students throughout their time in Rome. This immersion program was developed by CENTERS, a consortium of fourteen Jesuit universities.

The Synod on Synodality is a three-year process of listening and dialogue which will conclude in 2024. This pilgrimage is designed to foster engagement with the global Synod on Communion, Participation, and Mission. “Pope Francis has invited all of the faithful into communal discernment about the future of the Catholic Church through this current Synod on Synodality,” said Assistant Professor of Pastoral Studies Emily Jendzejec, Ph.D., who teaches the Synodality course and will attend the pilgrimage. “Our course and pilgrimage to Rome during the final weeks of the current Synod invite students to engage with synodality as an ecclesial concept of journeying together at a pivotal moment in the life of the Church. This is a transformative opportunity for our students within their ministerial formation, and I am hopeful in how they will share the fruits of their experiences with the wider Loyola community and the students’ faith communities and ministries when they return.”