A deeper dive on ‘Amoris Laetitia’ is planned for the World Meeting of Families, to be held in Dublin in August 2018.
Amoris Laetitia
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Opposition to Óscar Romero’s canonization was ‘political,’ Archbishop Paglia says
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the postulator for the cause of Blessed Óscar Romero, experienced firsthand pushback against the archbishop’s canonization.
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Can Catholics dissent from Pope Francis’ teaching on the family? Wrong question.
March 19 marks the one-year anniversary of the publication of “Amoris Laetitia.”
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Archbishop Gomez: We are the answer that God provides to those who suffer
‘God is silent only to the extent that we are.’
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Pope Francis: Top Ten Moments
It’s the four year anniversary of Pope Francis’ election to the papacy and we bring you Francis’ Top Ten moments of the past four years.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Cardinal Nichols: Pope Francis’ ‘toughness’ will see the Catholic Church through reforms
“Creating space for a variety of pastoral responses is not decentralization. It’s a response to the realities in which people live.”
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Bishop McElroy on his critics, mercy for immigrants and the disruption we need.
At the U.S. Regional World Meeting of Popular Movements in Modesto, California, San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy electrified attendees with a challenging analysis of this “pivotal moment as a people and as a nation, in which bitter divisions cleave our country and pollute our national dialogue.” He told his Modesto audience on Feb. 18 […]
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Top Vatican Legal Expert: Pope Francis opens the door to Communion for Catholics in irregular marriages
“Amoris Laetitia” addresses the reality of Catholics in “non-legitimate unions” and opens the possibility for them to receive the Eucharist under certain conditions.
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Vatican official explains how desire to change could allow access to the Eucharist
The intention to change “is exactly the theological element that allows absolution and access to the Eucharist as long as there is the impossibility of immediately changing the situation of sin.”
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Council of Cardinals publicly expresses support of Pope Francis
The statement came after a handful of public challenges to Pope Francis’ teaching and authority