Sex and the Synod: Decision Time

Published: Nov. 17, 2015, 1:05 a.m.

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Pope Francis has brought together nearly 300 bishops from all over the world for a special Synod on the Family. He has asked them to speak frankly and with courage about his Church\\u2019s most divisive teachings \\u2013 those that affect the sex lives of more than billion people. Liberal Catholics would like Rome to relax its teachings on homosexuality, birth control and divorce and remarriage but in Africa many believers want their bishops to uphold tradition and doctrine.

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