Over the past few days, the 270 synod fathers and other participants have discussed part 2 of the working document (“Instrumentum Laboris”), which deals with “The Discernment of the Family Vocation.”

“I’d forgotten about it, and I didn’t think it was controversial at all,” Cardinal Dolan said.

The publication of the letter from thirteen cardinals to Pope Francis on October 11 by the Italian expert on Vatican affairs Sandro Magister continued to be at the center of discussion in Rome today with various declarations from cardinals and much speculation as to the motive why it was leaked a

The move is an attempt to keep politics and prejudice out of the registration process.

In a telegram to Turkey's president, he expressed his closeness to all those suffering from the terrible attack and assured them of his prayers.

Several groups said the presentation of the family in the first part of the synod's working document is too negative, too bleak, because it “mainly highlights problems.”