The Synod on the Family did not end disastrously, but as others have pointed out, we are by no means out of the woods, and, given the signals that Pope Francis has been sending about his own thoughts on the matter and the people he has been promoting, until at least the end of his pontificate, things are likely going to continue getting worse before they get better.
While the final document doesn't outright break with tradition or teach heresy, it makes some incoherent noise about conscience that will be exploited by those who wish to do so (certainly many priests and bishops, likely Pope Francis) to give the divorced and remarried (and other sexual sinners) permission to decide on their own whether or not they are eating and drinking condemnation upon themselves. In practice, this has already been happening on the ground on sexual issues since the 1960s. It was even endorsed by some bishops in their responses to Humanae Vitae. However, this erroneous idea of conscience has, to this point, been resisted by Rome. We'll see how much further Pope Francis wants to push things in the post-synodal apostolic exhortation. My guess (my hope) is that, seeing that Cardinal Burke and many others are already very much on to the deliberate ambiguities in the synodal document, he will realize that he can't push it much further without provoking outright dissent and rejection. The ambiguities will remain ambiguities--we'll have the semblance of peace where the heretics and the orthodox can appeal to the same document, reading it differently.
The orthodox will continue their teaching and resistance, reading the documents in (a somewhat forced) continuity with John Paul II and Benedict XVI, who firmly rejected this false notion of conscience, in hopes that a future pope will set things back right. We'll see though. If Pope Francis has adequate time to change the composition of the college of cardinals so that we are guaranteed another pope like him or worse, then things are going to start looking very, very dark. Conservative Catholics are going to have to start planning for the long-haul to preserve orthodoxy with or without the support of the hierarchy.
