Here it is at last, the final Synod document, published by this paper here and by the Vatican Press Service here. This latter version has the crucial voting numbers. A lot of what the document has to say is welcome and not very controversial. I am pleased that there is some emphasis on economic factors, which, in many countries, both rich and poor, make family life very difficult. But what most people will home in on are the three ‘controversial’ paragraphs, numbers 52, 53 and 55, which failed to get the two thirds approval. These are the paragraphs dealing with those in second unions, and persons of homosexual orientation. What will really trouble many, and it certainly troubles me, is this: