As I listened to Juan, I was struck by his capacity for acceptance and fidelity. He wishes that he could receive the sacraments, but that has not led him to resentment towards the church.
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Pope Leo’s cancer diagnosis: What we know
In this week’s episode of “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen and Gerry explain what we know and what still remains unclear regarding Pope Leo XIV’s shocking lung cancer diagnosis.
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Bishops conclude Vatican family meeting as Pope Leo XIV recovers in hospital
“I will read the fruits of your work and discussions, and offer my reflections in due course,” Pope Leo wrote in a brief message to the participants signed on the day of his surgery.
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‘Amoris’ meeting discusses divorce and remarriage among human ‘fragilities’
Cardinal Farrell invited the bishops and the 22 lay participants at the meeting to “speak truthfully” and listen to stories of the “complexity of family life.”
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‘Amoris’ participants agree that one major issue is affecting families: Migration.
On the first day of the Vatican’s closed-door meeting on “Amoris Laetitia,” “human mobility and migration were mentioned by all the groups.”
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‘Amoris Laetitia’ and its tough questions are here to stay
Some critics of Pope Francis had remained hopeful that a Leo papacy would bring some reversals of his teachings. Instead, in almost every case, Leo has doubled down, as he is doing this week.
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Indian Cardinal Filipe Neri: ‘there is no ‘single stereotype of an ideal family’
Cardinal Neri said that 10 years after “Amoris Laetitia,” the church in Asia sees that “there is no single stereotype of an ideal family but rather a challenging mosaic of diverse realities.”
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‘We have much to learn from families’: Pope Leo welcomes bishops to ‘Amoris Laetitia’ meeting
Pope Leo asked the bishops gathered at the Vatican for a meeting on the family to “recognize the work of grace even in situations marked by limits, wounds and apparent failure.”
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‘Amoris Laetitia’ at 10: The history, tensions and why Pope Leo wants to revisit Francis’ signature document
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” a look back at the tense 2014 and 2015 synods on the family and what Pope Francis decided in “Amoris Laetitia”
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Bishops are meeting at the Vatican next week to discuss ‘Amoris Laetitia.’ Here’s what you need to know.
Ten years after the publication of Pope Francis’ document on the family, Pope Leo has asked the heads of the world’s bishops’ conferences to discern next steps for proclaiming the Gospel to families today.