The full story of how Pope Francis planned a seismic change in the way the Catholic Church makes its decisions, adapted from last week’s annual Tablet Lecture “Everybody has won and all must have prizes,” declared the Dodo in Alice in Wonderland when asked to judge the winner of a race. That was also the judgement many reached on the Synod of Bishops’ meeting on the family in Rome last month. The final document had something for everyone. It allowed conservatives to insist that nothing had really changed, and that therefore they had won, while liberals asserted that the door had been opened to significant change on the totemic issue of readmitting divorced and remarried Catholics to Communion.  But it is a mistake to judge the synod in terms of