Amoris Laetitia and Everything After
Time for another intervention on matters Catholic, I’m afraid. Last week Austen Ivereigh, author of a very fine Pope Francis biography and frequent defender of the pontiff against conservative critics, wrote a piece for Crux announcing
that the debate over “Amoris Laetitia” and communion for the remarried
is essentially over, that intransigent conservatives are now as much
“dissenters” from the papal magisterium as any liberal agitating for the
ordination of women under John Paul II — and that long after the cardinals questioning Francis are no more “than a footnote in the history of this papacy, long after Ross Douthat’s predicted schism from the columns of the New York Times has
failed to materialize, the next generation of priests will be
applying the magnificent teaching of ‘Amoris Laetitia,’ and the noisy,
angry strains of dissent will have faded into a distant memory.”
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