Rome Diary 2015
Synod on the Family
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'Amoris Laetitia': Start with Chapter 4 (NCR)
Summary of Amoris Laetitia [Vatican Radio]
Amoris Laetitia: Five key passages you need to read [Catholic Herald]
Francis' exhortation a radical shift to see grace in imperfection, without fearing moral confusion [NCR] -
Pope Francis on the modern family: what we learned from Amoris Laetitia [The Guardian]
Pope Francis, Urging Less Judgment, Signals Path for Divorced on Communion [New York Times]
Amoris Laetitia is ‘kitchen sink theology’ and all the better for it [Catholic Herald]
Pope Francis offers hope to divorced Catholics, says no to gay marriage [Chicago Tribune]
Amoris Laetitia: How the Pope's exhortation could shake up the Church [Christian Today]
Highlights of Pope Francis' teaching on the family [Vatican Radio]
Erwartungen an postsynodales Schreiben
Pressemitteilung München/Rom, 7. April 2016
Die KirchenVolksBewegung Wir sind Kirche sieht das postsynodale Schreiben „Amoris laetitia“ („Freude der Liebe“), das am Freitag veröffentlicht wird, als Nagelprobe für die Reformfähigkeit der gesamten Kirche. Nach dem inhaltlich in Vielem enttäuschenden Abschlusspapier („relatio finalis“), das die Bischofssynode Ende Oktober 2015 Papst Franziskus übergab, wird jetzt das Schreiben des Papstes ein erster, aber hoffentlich wegweisender Schritt sein, die jahrhundertealte Fixierung der katholischen Lehre auf eine rechtlich rigorose Sexualmoral zu verändern.
The Media Spokesperson for IMWAC was interviewed for Crux Now last week.
Christian Weisner grew up in Germany in a Catholic family that was profoundly shaped by the Second Vatican Council. In Pope Francis, he sees an opportunity for that historic moment in the Church to be fully realized.
“In many ways, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict, who was head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 23 years before he became pope, really worked against the Council,” he said. Francis, in contrast, is bringing “the ideas, the principles of the Council, back to Rome, back to our Church.”
It’s that feeling of possibility, Weisner said, that brought him from his home outside Munich to Rome to observe the Synod of Bishops as it deliberates issues important the international movement he helps lead, We Are Church.