Simon and Grace Patton swing their daughter Julia, as they walk with their other children, Sebastian and Theodore, left, outside their home in late May in Rock Hill, Mo. The Vatican announced Oct. 8 that Pope Francis called for an extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family Oct. 5-19, 2014, to discuss the “pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelization.” (CNS photo/Lisa Johnston, St. Louis Review) (Oct. 10, 2013) See VATICAN-FAMILY Oct. 10, 2013.