How to find the articles from the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of Synod of Bishops (Synod of the Family) and the votes on them?
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Frédéric Martel in his book [*In the Closet of the Vatican*](https://www.amazon.com/Closet-Vatican-Power-Homosexuality-Hypocrisy/dp/1472966147) has the following remarks on the [Synod of the Family](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Ordinary_General_Assembly_of_the_Synod_of_Bishops) :
> In fact, a ‘liberal* majority emerged from the Synod, but the quorum
> required for the adoption of the controversial articles, which
> required two-thirds of the votes, was missing. Three paragraphs out of
> 62 were therefore rejected » and they were the most to the point. The
> pope didn’t get his quorum. Francis’s revolutionary project on the
> family and homo sexuality was defeated.
**Is there any source where I can find the texts of those 3 rejected paragraphs and the votes taken on them?** I am especially interested to check whether all 3 paragraphs indeed gathered the majority votes and were not included in the final document due only to the supermajority requirement. I have read some reviews about the book cited above and they mention many fact checking failures. So, the quoted
> 'liberal' majority
may be a metaphor and may not mean the majority of votes for the specific paragraphs.
I am aware of the [www.synod.va](http://www.synod.va/content/synod/en.html) . The website has the *instrumentum laboris* and similar documents but I can not find the proceedings (transactions) and the votes. AFAIK, the synodal assemblies are not closed as opposed to the Ecumenical Councils. (I heard there are about 50+ volume publications of the [Second Vatican Council](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council) , therefore the notion that Vatican II was closed is quite dubious).
**Question to be clarified**: While the question (as it stands) seems to be legitimate, most likely Frédéric Martel talked about the [III Extraordinary Assembly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Extraordinary_General_Assembly_of_the_Synod_of_Bishops) , which was the preparatory synodal assembly before the [XIV ordinary assembly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Ordinary_General_Assembly_of_the_Synod_of_Bishops) .
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