This is on point, I'm Begna Chakrabardi.

At the Vatican, a month-long gathering of Catholics is coming to a close.

Called Asinid, cardinals, bishops, and priests from around the world

have been discussing the future of the church.

And for the first time ever, Pope Francis also invited lay people, including women.

Pope Francis, they're speaking at the Sinid's opening ceremony

where he said the protagonist of the Sinid is the Holy Spirit

and encouraged everyone to confront their differences.

Sinid attendees are considering topics such as whether women should be allowed to be deacons.

Should the church bless LGBTQ plus unions?

And whether Catholicism's millennium-long prohibition of marriage for priests should come to an end?

On Saturday, the last day of the Sinid, the group will release an official report.

Conversations from inside this month's gathering prior to that have been kept mostly under wraps.

But attendees have been participating in tightly controlled media briefings.

Here's Archbishop Stanislaw Gaudensky of Poland speaking yesterday.

Gaudensky's saying that he was struck by how exchanges have been truly peaceful

and that they didn't focus on differences.

Here's Catherine Clifford, a theology professor at St. Paul University in Ottawa.

Humanity has need of our united witness, a credible witness to the possibility of healing and reconciliation.

So by walking together, sharing God's abundant love for all humanity and all creation,

we are growing closer and learning to live again as one.

So as the Catholic Church considers its own future, what is the significance of the Sinid,

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