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There's been a lot of talk about what the pope said or didn't say in "Amoris Laetitia" ("The Joy of Love"), his recent apostolic exhortation about the family.

Jul 14, 2016

There's been a lot of talk about what the pope said or didn't say in "Amoris Laetitia" ("The Joy of Love"), his recent apostolic exhortation about the family. There's also a lot of misinformation about what he said regarding Communion for the divorced and remarried.

In an April 2016 entry for his "Word on Fire" blog, Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron, tried to clarify some of the confusion.

"The pope by no means is 'relaxing church rules on divorce,'" he said. "In fact, he emphatically reaffirms the centrality and indissolubility of marriage, and he actually says nothing directly about Communion for the divorced and remarried. He is calling for greater pastoral sensitivity."

The pope, says Bishop Barron, is "certainly not calling for 'less dogma,'" as some have incorrectly suggested. If anything, "he unambiguously reaffirms the dogmas and doctrines concerning marriage," Bishop Barron says.

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