Conservative and liberal Catholics don't agree on much at the moment, but they do agree on one thing: The Catholic Church is headed toward a schism.
The conflict they're predicting has its roots in the bishops' "synod on the family" that wound up in Vatican City last month. The gathering quickly turned into an ecclesiastical free-for-all on an issue only peripherally related to families but on the minds of many Roman Catholics these days: whether the church should adopt a more welcoming attitude toward people in living arrangements that contravene traditional church teaching.
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