In our parish, we felt it was very important that the response of the laity to the bishops’ consultation on the family (Letters, 2 May), should be comprehensive. We therefore planned a series of discussion groups leading to feed back to the parish and the diocese by the end of June. We searched for good questionnaires, and speaking with people of other dioceses, found this to be very difficult, finding the Call to Action too late to be able to encourage the parish to use it. We therefore created our own questionnaire comprising questions from the two online questionnaires and gave these out after Easter.We found the bishops’ document “The Call, the Journey and the Mission” too bland for good discussion; the really serious questions were given only to the clerg