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The Vatican issued the draft summary of speeches midway through the two-week synod on family issues, with one section titled "Welcoming homosexual persons".

In a wide-ranging welcome address to the synod on Monday, Welby described the recent attacks on Christians in Pakistan and Nigeria as one of the greatest challenges to the Anglican church.

Mr. Tate will conduct a 15-piece synod on Wednesday.

"There is also the Synod on the family in October, which will interrogate these moral issues of love and marriage".

The Pope held a Roman synod on March 1, 499, which decided that only a majority vote triumphs.

In calling for a synod on the family, Francis followed a precedent set by John Paul II in 1980.

The fortnight-long Extraordinary Synod on the Family ended with headlines like: "Pope snubbed" and "Liberal Hopes Dashed".

However, reflecting the level of concern, the bishop of Oxford, Steven Croft, briefed members of the diocesan synod on Saturday.

Even with the decision to hold a synod on the family, he was careful not to move without firm Church precedents: John Paul II held a synod on the family in 1980, but in a different spirit.

Francis enjoys a rare degree of public popularity, but in the Synod on the Family he faces an unusual degree of dissent within the Vatican.

In the closing session, Father McDonagh proposes "a three-year synod on the encyclical," to educate Church members about this new theology of interconnection and "integral ecology".