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Working-group reports counteract what he characterizes as a misleading interim text.

Proposed changes highlight ‘importance of the witness of sacrificial, loving families today’

Strikingly conciliatory language of midterm report stirs controversy among bishops.

In official reports of the closed-door talks at the Synod of Bishops on the family, an emerging theme has been the call for a new kind of language more appropriate for pastoral care today."Language appeared many, many times," Basilian Father Thomas Rosica, the briefer for English-speaking

Speakers ask synod fathers to stop giving ‘contradictory advice’ on birth control.

Steps forward on sexual and medical ethics

“The church faces the tension of upholding the truth while expressing compassion.”

The author of a controversial proposal to make it easier for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion says he believes Pope Francis backs the measure but would not apply it without support from bishops at two upcoming synods on the family."I had the impression the pope is o

Both sides fire over Communion for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics.

Vatican says laicized nuncio could stand trial in Dominican Republic