Whatever doors may have been opened by the Synod on the Family to help some divorced and remarried people, the final document feels distorted and unreal in its emphasis on male-female differences, beyond the obviously biological, and the weak and minimal references to the roles that single people and people with different sexualities play in families. There are many more paternal references to God or to priests than to human fathers. A communication gap between the Church and a wider audience w
12 November 2015, The Tablet
Reality gap
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