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Amoris Laetitia

Reading Amoris Laetitia, Part 2: The Introduction

April 17, 2016 Leigh M. Johnson Amoris Laetitia, Ethics, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, The Search for Values Comments Off on Reading Amoris Laetitia, Part 2: The Introduction

I’ll just assume that many non-Catholics, like myself, have absolutely no idea what authority Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia exerts (or exhorts) as a “Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation.” So, first, a primer on Papal texts. An apostolic exhortation is but one of many different types of communications from the Pope to the community of clerics and laypersons that constitute…

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Reading Amoris Laetitia, Part 1

April 17, 2016 Leigh M. Johnson Amoris Laetitia, Ethics, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive, The Search for Values Comments Off on Reading Amoris Laetitia, Part 1

Earlier this week, I finished reading the recent Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation from Pope Francis entitled Amoris Laetitia (“The Joy of Love”). Subsequently, on various news outlets and social media, I have seen a number of so-called “summaries” of Amoria Laetitia that can at best be described as grossly inadequate and ungenerous readings of it and, at worst, as…

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