Cardinal Kevin Farrell announced today that Pope Francis plans to attend the ninth World Meeting of Families, from Aug. 21 to 26,
Synod on the Family
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Vatican’s family chief: Youth must be heard ahead of Rome summit
Cardinal Farrell told Canadian young people: “Make a difference. Don’t let the world control you; don’t let it drag you down.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Cardinal Schonborn: Church doing best to strengthen families of all types
Cardinal Christoph Schonborn speaks about Amoris Laetitia and family life ahead of addressing the “Let’s Talk Family: Let’s Be Family” conference in Limerick, Ireland.
Posted inFaith, Features
A synod, not a solution: San Diego’s grassroots effort to respond to Amoris Laetitia
The laypeople were the experts—the ones who live the challenges of family life every day—at the San Diego synod responding to Pope Francis’ “Amoris Laetitia.”
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Love on the Margins: What Catholic interfaith couples share with the divorced and remarried
Their invalid marriages put these Catholics on the margins of the church.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis: Dublin meeting will take a deep dive into “Amoris Laetitia” (and not just Chapter 8)
A deeper dive on ‘Amoris Laetitia’ is planned for the World Meeting of Families, to be held in Dublin in August 2018.
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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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The church should not strive for “false clarity,” says Australian archbishop
The pope is “bringing out into the very public setting of the papacy what any pastor does in his parish or diocese.”
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Pope Francis: Section on divorce in ‘Amoris’ came from listening and discernment
Pope Francis said the “richest experience” of the church operating in a way that is not strictly “top down” came from the two meetings of the Synod of Bishops on the family.
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Bringing Doctrine to Life
Cardinal Walter Kasper an accomplished German theologian who has written at least 15 books in ecclesiology and Christology has become known in recent years as the ldquo pope rsquo s theologian rdquo His latest book quot The Catholic Church quot sheds light on why Pope Francis has relied on