The Synod is Over: How have families been helped?

About half of all marriages in this country end in divorce or separation.   Thousands of children grow up without a Mum or a Dad in their everyday life.   Ask the schools in England if this is true and they will affirm this.  It has been getting worse and worse.   And children of divorced parents have a pretty greater chance of ending up divorced themselves.  They underachieve at school and they have a poor self image in many many cases.  There is so much unhappiness. We have all met them because there is hardly a family free from this curse either in the immediate or extended setting   Time and again there are pieces to pick up by parents or grandparents, there are tears to wipe or hearts to mend.  What a wonderful thing it would have been if at the Synod on the Family the Bishops had just acknowledged once that this was the real problem.   But no, it was all about the rights of divorced people to receive Holy Communion or the rights of Gays to be married.    There was so much squabbling and infighting that it was an absolute disgrace.    Just look at the headlines in the media.   The Catholic Church has not changed its doctrine on the divorced and remarried.    The Catholic church will be a more welcoming Church.   Cases will be judge on an individual basis.   It is all centred on pleasing the few and ignoring the many - the children.    After He spoke to the crowd on the subject of Divorce Jesus turned their attention to the children.  When that Gospel is read the children are included by Jesus in that Gospel - has anyone noticed.   But then this Synod did not seem to be about Jesus either, it was all about rules of the Church.   I an disgusted  

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