Vatican City, Oct 28, 2018 / 06:36 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In a letter read out at the synod closing Mass, bishops wrote to young people “our frailties and sins must not be an obstacle for your trust.”

“Our weaknesses should not deter you,” wrote the synod fathers in a letter published Oct. 28. “The Church is your mother; she does not abandon you.”