Pope Francis did not have the year he thought he was going to have.
It began this way: marked by sniping about his reform tendencies, especially where Catholic Church teaching on the family is concerned. As the Vatican geared up for its 2018 synod assembly – a meeting of bishops from around the world who gather in Rome to advise the pope on different issues, this year on youth and vocations – talk that the 2014 and 2015 synod meetings on the family had been rigged in favor of a reformist agenda circulated among anti-Francis factions.
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