You report that priests are being urged to sign a letter calling on the next Synod on the Family to resist any change in the Church’s moral teaching on marriage and sexuality (News from Britain and Ireland, 14 March). The letter suggests that the Extraordinary Synod caused “confusion”.If the call for mercy, that seems to me to be an essential message of the Lineamenta (produced at the end of last year’s Extraordinary Synod), causes “confusion”, this in itself is a cause for concern: “People need to be accepted in the concrete circumstances of life …  including those who have experienced failure or find themselves in a variety of situations. The Christian message always contains in itself the reality and the dynamic of mercy and truth t