Michael Bradley explores what the Instrumentum Laboris has to say on the topic of the natural law and the Gospel of the Family in the inaugural essay of Ethika Politika‘s symposium on the Synod on the Family.

Despite any troubles that threaten it, the extraordinary synod on the family is a catalyst for the domestic church; it is a reason to take seriously the vocation to holiness so many of us hear as fathers, mothers, spouses, and neighbors.