Catholic Marriage

From a communications point of view, ‘Amoris Laetitia’ is a shipwreck
- Commentary
- August 23, 2017
Good communicators not only deal with facts, they also deal with appearances. They predict confusing or negative perceptions and navigate around them. This hasn’t been the case with ‘Amoris Laetitia,’ the document by Pope Francis on marriage and the family. The debate over a footnote means the rest of the positive and affirming message on Christian love and the sacrament of matrimony has been lost in the controversy.
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Quebec bishop gets Vatican OK for nun to officiate at wedding
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- August 2, 2017
A priest shortage led a Canadian bishop to make a request through the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments for permission to have Sister Pierrette Thiffault of the Sisters of Providence perform a wedding ceremony.
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‘Amoris Laetitia’ is about accompaniment, not the divorced and remarried
- Book Review, Vatican
- May 4, 2017
Three professors from the John Paul II Institute in Rome have produced a handbook explaining how to apply ‘Amoris Laetitia,’ which was just published in English. They argue discernment should help find ways to live spousal fidelity, and not ways to be excused from the Church’s moral law.
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Could this save Catholic marriage prep?
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- December 27, 2016
Witness to Love marriage prep ministry, based in the U.S., tries to call engaged couples into the Church for a greater and more fulfilling life of virtue through an intensive, multi-faceted program. The program is in line with Pope Francis’s ‘Amoris Laetitia.’
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