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VATICAN DOCUMENTS
There have been many changes in the rules governing the way that interchurch families have been able to celebrate the sacraments and other church practices. Often these changes have come about through documents published by the Vatican - this section of the library includes many such documents as well as other teaching documents of note (such as “The Joy of Love” written by Pope Francis).
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“Amoris Laetitia – the Joy of Love” – Pope Francis’s Exhortation published in response to the Synod on the family 2015
Pope Francis: 'Amoris Laetitia - the Joy of Love'
The Joy of Love experienced by families is also the joy of the Church. As the Synod Fathers noted, for all the many signs of crisis in the institution of marriage, “the desire to marry and form a family remains vibrant, especially among young people, and this is an inspiration to the Church”.1 As a response to that desire, “the Christian proclamation on the
family is good news indeed”
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Amoris Laetitia – comments from an interchurch perspective by Ruth Reardon
The long-awaited post-synodal apostolic exhortation, on the Joy of Love, was signed by Pope
Francis on 19th March 2016 and published on 8th April in Italian, English, French and
German. This is an attempt to assess the importance of this document from the limited
perspective of what is of particular interest to interchurch families as such...
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Summary of Amoris Laetitia published by Vatican
The Apostolic Exhortation is striking for its breadth and detail. Its 325 paragraphs are distributed over nine chapters. The seven introductory paragraphs plainly set out the complexity of a topic in urgent need of thorough study. The interventions of the Synod Fathers make up [form] a “multifaceted gem” a precious polyhedron, whose value must be preserved. But the Pope cautions that “not all discussions of doctrinal, moral or pastoral
issues need to be settled by interventions of the magisterium”. Indeed, for some questions, “each country or region … can seek solutions better suited to its culture and sensitive to its traditions and local needs...
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Ut Unum Sint
“The Joy of Love experienced by families is also the joy of the Church.” - “The Joy of Love”,
Pope Francis, 2015