No one is excluded from the love of God or from being welcomed into the Catholic Church, but God’s love and the church’s welcome also come with a call to conversion, said the English- language groups at the Synod of Bishops. Young people need to know “the church’s beautiful, yet challenging, vision, teaching and anthropology of the body, sexuality, love and life, marriage and chastity,” said the English-A group. “At the same time, we restate the church’s opposition to discrimination against any person or group, and her insistence that God loves every young person, and so does the church,” the group said in its report.

The reports, published by the Vatican on Oct. 20, were the result of reflections in the small groups — divided by language — on the final chapter of the Synod working document, which dealt with “pastoral and missionary conversion.” Most of the 14 working groups called for further local and national dialogue with young people on what they need from the Catholic Church and what they can offer the church.

Most also called for a greater involvement of women in the life of the church, including in the training of priests, and many acknowledged how the sexual abuse scandal undermines the church’s credibility.