Australian Bishop Peter Elliott is among dozens of converts to Catholicism who have asked the synod on the family to uphold Church teaching on marriage.
More than 100 converts signed an open letter to the synod fathers and the Pope.
The signatories include such prominent converts as Scott and Kimberley Hahn, Mark Regnerus and John Finnis.
The signers explain that the Church’s teaching on marriage and sexuality helped draw them to the Church, especially as she held to these truths when society began to reject them.