'If we are going to really accompany people, we have to first of all engage them,' says Archbishop Cupich

Madeleine Teahan and Fr Mark Drew discuss this week's dramatic events in Rome

Guests greet Holy Father 'with joke' after he personally insisted on visit

Bishop Shomali says it is painful to see violence return to Jerusalem

Cardinal says the synod fathers 'are all on the same page, if [on] different paragraphs'

The Reformation with its attendant iconoclasm stripped England of much of its numinosity

The church will commemorate 21 men beheaded on a Libyan beach

Bishop says for couples in Africa the pain of childlessness is 'beyond anything I can say'

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Reports and commentary, from Rome and elsewhere, on the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops