Could someone verify the following news item: it has just been announced that a special church synod is to be held in 2015. Its membership will be made up of 150 Catholic married women and men chosen from each of the continents. The subject for the synod will be “Celibacy:  the clerical life of cardinals, bishops and priests”. The findings of the synod, although being not quite infallible, will still be binding on all clerics. It will deal particularly with their private lives,