An elderly woman asks for money as women pass her by in Kiev, Ukraine, Oct.23. While they did not grab headlines, the topics of elderly and people with disabilities, openness to life and the plight of migrants and refugees were also on the agenda of the Synod of Bishops on the family. (CNS photo / Sergey Dolzhenko, EPA)
"We fail to see that some are mired in desperate and degrading poverty, with no way out, while others have not the faintest idea of what to do with their possessions, vainly showing off their supposed superiority and leaving behind them so much waste which, if it were the case everywhere, would destroy the planet."
- Pope Francis, from "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home" (paragraph 90)
