‘Real Pastoring Can’t Do Without the Truth’ (Amoris Laetitia) [Catholic Caucus]

National Catholic Register ^ | April 21, 2017 | Edward Pentin

[BlessedBeGod]

Six lay academics from around the world will address a conference in Rome Saturday on how to bring clarity to a controversial chapter of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love).

The one-day event, entitled “Bringing Clarity One Year After Amoris Laetitia,” is being held in response to the confusion deriving from differing interpretations of the document’s Chapter 8, especially over whether or not to allow some divorced and remarried couples living in irregular unions to receive holy Communion.

The conference, hosted by Italian publications La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana and Il Timone, follows the submission last year by four cardinals of five dubia (doubts) to Pope Francis aimed at confirming whether or not ambiguous passages in Amoris Laetitia are in continuity with the Church’s established moral teaching.

The Holy Father has said he won’t respond to the five questions, each of which requested a “Yes” or “No” answer. He has said some “persist in seeing only white or black, when, rather, one ought to discern in the flow of life.” 

One of Saturday’s speakers is Canadian Douglas Farrow, professor of Christian philosophy at McGill University in Montreal, who will discuss “The Roots of the Current Crisis.”

In this April 20 interview with the Register, he explains this crisis and how the problems surrounding Amoris Laetitia stem from a crisis of authority that is both moral and doctrinal as well as one of faith and reason. He also stresses that “real pastoring can’t do without the truth,” especially today, and shares his reasons why he believes the dubia must be answered and the crisis resolved, or it will “leave a wound in the Church” that won’t be “easily healed...”

[Slyfox]

The root of the problem with AL is that Francis never let the Magisterium and the appropriate experts go thru it as it was edited and published. Instead, he sent out a questionnaire guaranteed to produce the answers he wanted and he had his best friends take a crack at it. Now he is in the middle of a deserved backlash.

First time this has ever happened in the history of the Church.