VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Members of the Synod of Bishops on the family agree that Catholic families are the beating heart and busy hands of the church, but the tensions in the synod hall demonstrate that what they don't agree on is a vision of the church and its primary attitude to the world.
As the Catholic Church marked the 50th anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council -- the last session was held Sept. 14-Dec. 8, 1965 -- debates within the synod indicated that reflection...