The small-group reports from the synod’s final crucial final week show that while opposition remains determined, most bishops are open to continuing to explore the possibility of communion for civilly remarried divorcés.

But there is little agreement on what that might look like, or how to proceed, with most groups suggesting further discernment or kicking the ball to the Pope.

It was obvious from the small-group reports that divisions over the issue went deep and were not easily resolved. Speaking to journalists after yesterday’s press briefing, Cardinal Daniel Sturla, the Archbishop of Montevideo, Uruguay, told me that in his Italian-language group “there were very clearly two completely opposed positions” with “heavyweights on both sides speaking with well developed arguments in favour of one position or the other”.

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