The Catholic Digital News 2015-10-31 (Special Issue: Pope Francis and the Synod on the Family)

The Catholic Digital News gathers the week's most important news stories involving the Catholic Church and publishes them within a single digital volume. Each edition is beautifully formatted with full-color images and features world, national, and Vatican news, plus opinion pieces, entertainment reviews, and daily Mass readings. This issue covers the events of the week ending October 31, 2015.

THE CATHOLIC DIGITAL NEWS
Volume 1, Issue 44
October 31, 2015

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SPECIAL ISSUE: POPE FRANCIS AND THE SYNOD ON THE FAMILY

VATICAN NEWS
Francis tells Synod Fathers to learn from Holy Family
St. Therese relics to be on display throughout Synod
God's dream for creation is union of man and woman
Pope asks for prayers before Synod commencement
Pope Francis warns Fathers about politicizing Synod
Full text of Cardinal Erdo's introductory Synod report
Cardinal Erdo's emphatic defense of Church teaching
Pope Francis supports new synod process in speech
Need for more accurate translations of Synod papers
Bishops skewer working document of Synod in report
Mercy at Synod will not be abandonment of doctrine
Proclaim the beauty of God's plan for family at Synod
Synod is cautioned on perils of disunity in the Church
Concerned bishops write letter to Pope about Synod
Cardinal Pell's response to media leak of Synod letter
How 'shadow council' is trying to influence the Synod
Diverse Synod subgroups united on gender ideology
Cardinal Muller's response to Synod letter disclosure
Helping Synod bishops understand violent marriages
Synod bishops need clarity on what marriage truly is
Release from the German small group at the Synod
Do not 'regionalize' the Church teaching on marriage
Synod faces 'silent martyrdom' of family incest, abuse
Communion for divorced Catholics debated at Synod
Speculation on composition of final Synod document
50th anniversary of Synod renews call to discipleship
Full transcript of interview with Cardinal Pell in Synod
Cardinal Urosa asks the Synod to empower marriage
Clarification of notorious 2014 Synod midterm report
Pope's catechesis on marriage, fidelity, and freedom
Support in Synod for Church teaching on communion
Archbishop Gomez's comments over family in Synod
Discussing the problem of pornography at the Synod
Gay urges Synod to keep teaching on homosexuality
Synod was always about upholding family, marriage
Final Synod document strongly backs Church dogma
Pope Francis' message to bishops at close of Synod
Pope grieves loss of many lives in Afghanistan quake
Prayer for Christians to remain within the Middle East
Pope Francis on prayer as the treasure of all religion

WORLD NEWS
Gay Catholics tell the Synod to promote chastity for all
Paris archbishop says no revolution to occur at Synod
More scheming outside Synod at Rome LGBT event
German bishops criticized over support of church tax
Sculpture seeks to comfort those mourning abortion
Salesians celebrate their 25th anniversary in Burma
Mexico glad Hurricane Patricia caused little damage
Investigation of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae founder
New guidebook gives a tour of John Paul II's Poland
China replaces one-child policy with two-child policy

U.S. NEWS
Congress told child migrants' home countries worse
A look at U.S. prison system as calls for reform grow
U.S. archdiocese overhauls marriage prep program
Bishops renew calls against death penalty in Florida
New Mexico seminarians soup up car for vocations
Advocates chide U.S. on ignoring religious violence
Marriage event expects record-breaking attendance

FEATURES
Bishop Robert Barron: Preaching the strange word
Two November feast days of special remembrance
All Saint's Day is for all men and women of goodwill

SCRIPTURE READINGS
November 1, 2015
November 2, 2015
November 3, 2015
November 4, 2015
November 5, 2015
November 6, 2015
November 7, 2015