Tag: Amoris Laetitia

The Vatican has released the framework for a fall meeting with the heads of Eastern Catholic Churches and presidents of bishops' conferences, marking the 10th anniversary of "Amoris Laetitia" and focusing on the Church's pastoral approach to families.

Pope Leo XIV announced 19 March that he is asking the presidents of all bishops’ conferences around the world to convene in Rome in October to renew and deepen the church’s discussion on marriage and family in light of “Amoris Laetitia.”

Following Fr Peter Kwak’s recent defence in The Catholic Weekly of the late Holy Father’s comments in Amoris Laetitia on responding pastorally to divorce and remarriage, it should be pointed out that they were seized upon by people itching to change the church’s teaching on the issue.

In 2016 Pope Francis published Amoris Laetitia which translates as the ‘Joy of Love’. The document, the result of discernment over several years and...

Individuals, but not same sex unions, may be blessed While homosexual men and women must be respected, any form of blessing a same-sex union is...

Through them, he said, "we are called to rediscover the educational value of the family unit; it must be founded on the love that always regenerates relationships, opening up horizons of hope."

“Dear Father, I have seen several references to a recent Vatican document on gender theory but don’t know anything about it. Can you help...