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‘Amoris Laetitia’ is about accompaniment, not the divorced and remarried

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.

Pastoral handbook on ‘Amoris’ says answer is no on Communion

In a pastoral handbook for the implementation of “Amoris Laetitia,” three professors from Rome’s John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family say the document does not permit Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried, only a less complete participation in the sacraments.

What if we’ve been wrong about ‘Amoris’ all along?

There’s a significant difference between those who understand Church teaching and still choose to engage in sexual relations in a second marriage, and those who fail to live the Church’s teaching either from ignorance or weakness. ‘Amoris Laetitia’ seems directed to the latter, not the former.

‘Amoris Laetitia’: Are we seeing change by stealth?
- Analysis, Vatican
- January 18, 2017
The main problem with the apparent “change by stealth” approach has become apparent. Because ‘Amoris Laetitia’ remains ambiguous, different bishops are issuing contradictory guidelines. Their attempts to clarify the pope’s teaching will therefore only cause more confusion and contradiction.
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Another bishop says chastity key to Communion debate
- Church in the US
- January 17, 2017
Bishop Steven Lopes of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Peter, for ex-Anglicans, has issued a pastoral letter on ‘Amoris Laetitia’ holding that divorced and civilly remarried Catholics may receive Communion only if they commit to “complete chastity.”
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The real argument over ‘Amoris’ is an old one over conscience
- Analysis, Global Church
- January 15, 2017
The furious reaction from critics of ‘Amoris Laetitia’ to the Maltese bishops’ guidelines implementing it suggests that behind the debates and arguments over Francis’s apostolic exhortation ‘The Joy of Love’ is a very old-fashioned, and still unresolved, dispute within the Church over the role of conscience.
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