A "prelate" is, as I understand it, not exactly an Auxiliary Bishop, but nevertheless a high-up cleric in the Cathedral Chapter. Call him a Sub-auxiliary.
"Amoris Laetitia" (AL) is Pope Francis' 2016 Apostolic Exhortation on the Family, which is giving everybody bleeding ulcers because --- by ambiguity and obscurity and head-scratcher footnotes and glaring omissions and wink-wink-nod-nod--- it undermines the entire coherent edifice of Catholic understanding of Sacraments (esp. Penance, Communion and Matrimony) and Commandments (esp. the 6th and 9th) and the whole idea of an eternal Moral Law from God which is actually binding upon our consciences.
"Familiaris Consortio" (FC) is Pope Saint John Paul II's 1981 Apostolic Exhortation on the Family, which has key sections which are directly contradicted by AL.
The problem is, that if Pope Francis ever admitted that AL directly contradicts FC (and, let's face it, contradicts the whole papal magisterium previous to himself) --- it becomes apparent that AL cannot be legitimate. It cannot be Catholic doctrine. It must either be heresy, or a pile of --- stuff --- that, by its carefully-crafted ambiguity, leads to foreseeable heretical conclusions.
Now, in normal times, there would be no reason for American Catholics to get all in a kerfuffle about the chancery politics in Mainz, Germany. But these are not normal times. And it seems significant that a major European diocese is pushing a publication that unblushingly says "Yeah, Pope Francis is throwing Pope John Paul II's teachings in the trashcan, and we think that's Wunderbar!" Also significant that at least one of the canons / prelates in the Diocese feels conscience-bound to say "Whoa! Stop! I'm getting off this bus."
It's a disturbing but good sign. The masks are coming off. The battle lines have been drawn. And eventually everybody has to declare themselves for one side or the other.
Yoo-hoo! Want to come over here?
Wow! Thank you for taking the time to explain this to me. I appreciate it very much.
AL also holds the distinction among Papal documents of containing LIES—in the form of truncated quotations from previous documents. There’s a truncated quotation from Gaudium et Spes, and one from Familiaris Consortio.
All of this is from memory, and so is subject to correction at any time.
Some Monsignors are, or were, called “prelates.” Bergoglio abolished the three types of Monsignors. And practically abolished Monsignors entirely, by making it impossible to create one before the age of 65.
Of course, in many countries, bishops are addressed as “Monsignor.” But that’s something else.