Pope Leo XIV urged Catholic bishops to accompany families facing “limits, wounds and apparent failure,” continuing the pastoral approach of his predecessor, Pope Francis, as he addressed a Vatican gathering marking the 10th anniversary of “Amoris Laetitia,” the late pontiff’s…
Joyless about ‘Amoris Lætitia’
The Catholic Church, a multi-century institution, moves at glacier speed. Pope Francis’s recent post-synodal apostolic exhortation finally moved the Church into the 20th century. Like his earlier apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium (EG), Francis attempts a joyful evangelical call for a…