After all the effort put into consulting ordinary Catholics, I suspect many of us in the pews are wondering, “Did they listen? Do they ‘get it’”?

A former fan hops off the current pop culture party train

Several fathers believe there could be route between the polarized positions on admitting divorced and remarried Catholics to the Eucharist.

It’s a strange thing to call the vast majority of believers “the other members” of the church.

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.