D.C. archbishop has a pioneering plan to implement Amoris Laetitia

The Washington Post ^ | March 16, 2018 | Michelle Boorstein

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Pope Francis made global news in 2016 with a high-level document on family life meant to bring the church into modern times. It emphasized the need for priests to welcome divorced Catholics who remarry outside the church and many others in what the church calls “irregular situations.”

Francis fans cheered his emphasis on inclusion. Critics rued his lack of clarity.

Two years later, Washington’s archbishop, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, has released one of the most comprehensive responses from a Catholic leader on how to implement the pope’s more lofty and theoretical document.

Like the pope’s, Wuerl’s document sidesteps giving a specific answer to the question of whether Catholics who appear to violate classic teaching — getting remarried outside the church, marrying someone of the same gender, cohabiting — can receive the sacrament of Holy Communion, a core ritual in Catholic spiritual life that represents connection with God.

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Full title:

Pope Francis issued a controversial document on the family. The D.C. archbishop has a pioneering plan to implement it.

[madprof98]

a core ritual in Catholic spiritual life that represents connection with God

or something.

[ssfromla]

That's a big phrase with big words to describe what the Pope meant and how to implement it. I've been watching them turn themselves sideways trying to get into that door with Francis. I'll tell them how to describe it....The pope says all will go to heaven and there is no hell so do whatever you want to.

[mlizzy]

[The pope says all will go to heaven and there is no hell so do whatever you want to.]

Yes, something like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqtLs5mcZfI

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“Objective truth remains unaffected,” Wuerl writes.

Rather, we'll just ignore the objective truth while accompanying those who reject the objective truth.