Synod on the Family Archives

Barron: Upcoming synod on young people will be more important than last two synods

Mar 6, 2018

In an address at the University of Notre Dame on Monday, Bishop Robert Barron considered how the Church can reach “the nones” and young people in anticipation of the upcoming Synod of Bishops.

By Christopher White

Chaput: Controversies have obscured the ‘great wisdom and beauty’ of ‘Amoris’

Nov 9, 2017

In an address on Wednesday, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia said Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation ‘Amoris Laetitia’ offers great wisdom, but the controversies over it have “obscured much of the good in the document.” Chaput’s remarks came at the third annual National Assembly of Filipino Priests in Houston, Texas.

By Christopher White

Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S.: “Unity Prevails over Conflict”

Nov 3, 2017

During a week in which the U.S. bishops issued a statement expressing their loyalty to Pope Francis and encouraging greater charity in dialogue, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States delivered a lecture at the Catholic University of America praising the pope’s “spirituality of synodality and discernment” and argued for greater unity in the Church.

By Christopher White

Cardinal Wuerl mounts strong defense of ‘Amoris’ and Pope Francis

Sep 15, 2017

In the opening lecture for Georgetown University’s Sacred Lecture Series, Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington defended Pope Francis’s efforts to decentralize Church governance, his approach to synodality, and ‘Amoris Laetitia.’

By Christopher White

Pondering the parallels between Paul VI and Francis

Aug 6, 2016

Although Blessed Pope Paul VI and Pope Francis represent different personality types, the parallels in their papacies are striking — including, at times, the way their moderate approach sometimes leaves activists on both sides of Catholic debates unhappy.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Amoris Laetitia, chapter 2 – The experiences and challenges of families

Apr 8, 2016

31. The welfare of the family is decisive for the future of the world and that of the Church. Countless studies have been made of marriage and the family, their current problems and challenges. We do well to focus on concrete realities, since “the call and the demands of the

By Crux Staff