Cardinal Nichols' Synod intervention from the Synod on the Family

This week Cardinal Vincent Nichols' intervention to the synod, prepared well in advance of the gathering, was released. In it he wrote that the results of the questionnaire before the synod – asking Catholics about various aspects of Church teaching on marriage, including gay couples, contraception and the divorced – “made clear the distances between the perceived stance of the Church in her teachings and pastoral actions on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the complexities and tensions of family experience”.

Read the full text here:

INTERVENTION_TEXT_-_His_Eminence_Vincent_Cardinal_Nichols.pdf