What happened?
The contentious Amazon synod has come to an end, with bishops approving a document that calls for married priests in the region, and asks for further study on the subject of women deacons.
The meeting in Rome was overshadowed by debate over a statue which was venerated at the opening ceremony: officials and Amazonian Catholics described it variously as “Our Lady of the Amazon”, as a pagan goddess, or as representing an abstraction such as fertility or life.
