The Pope sent a questionnaire to families across the world asking them about their hopes and their fears before pronouncing views on marriage.
Pope Francis is to make public the conclusions of his two Synods on the family in a document eagerly awaited by 1.3 billion Roman Catholics.
It will detail the pope’s views about family life, marriage, contraception and bringing up children.
Many hope it will open the way for the church to offer communion to the divorced and civilly remarried, something conservatives have resisted.
The document is the culmination of three years’ work by the Pope.
