Last year’s Synod on the Family was notable for its attempt to find a more welcoming language for gay Catholics, although in the end the Synod Fathers voted down a shift to a more inclusive tone in their final document. Despite that, Rome this week welcomed a group of British LGBT – lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender – pilgrims who travelled to the Eternal City on Tuesday for the start of a six-day Lenten pilgrimage.Many members of the group, which worships at the Jesuits’ Farm Street Church in Mayfair, London, previously attended the “Soho Masses” for gay Catholics at Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory in Warwick Street.Cardinal Vincent Nichols, who had been in Rome attending the consistory, issued some warm words of welcome to the pilgrims