the Holy Father stepped out of the vehicle and walked to the commemorative plaque placed at the spot where, on May 13, 1981, St. John Paul II was the victim of an assassination attempt Photo: Vatican Media

Courage, a Catholic-Orthodox ministry that supports gay people, has filed a complaint against the Vatican Synod for slander and defamation

Courage International, a ministry founded more than four decades ago to accompany men and women seeking to live according to the Catholic Church’s teaching on chastity, issued an unusually forceful statement on May 8 accusing the Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod of publishing what it called a “false and unjust” portrayal of its work