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Asking Catholics to define Church Doctrine to you can be dicey at best. Many are so poorly catechized the can't explain The Real Presence of the Eucharist and the Holy consecration of it either

That's hillarious, coming from you, Murph.

Your hero Bobby Barron seems no better catechized than you:

Accordingly, he (Bergoglio) recommends two fundamental moves. First, we can recognize, even in irregular or objectively imperfect unions, certain positive elements that participate, as it were, in the fullness of married love. Thus for example, a couple living together without benefit of marriage might be marked by mutual fidelity, deep love, the presence of children, etc. Appealing to these positive marks, the Church might, according to a “law of gradualness,” move that couple toward authentic and fully-integrated matrimony (295). This is not to say that living together is permitted or in accord with the will of God; it is to say that the Church can perhaps find a more winsome way to move people in such a situation to conversion.

First Thoughts on “Amoris Laetitia”

Talk about the blind leading the blind.