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Letters from America: Reaction in the US to Pope Francis' Amoris Laetitia


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Letters from America: Reaction in the US to Pope Francis' Amoris Laetitia

11 April 2016 | by Catholic News Service

Apostolic exhortation is a 'joyful invitation', 'expressive' and 'encouraging'

The publication of Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation has received generally favourable views in the US, but there have been dissenters for his vision of the family with some pressure groups accusing the document of being "incomplete" and "unacceptable".
Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz (pictured) of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, told a news conference that he believed the Pope was attempting to help people encounter Jesus and through that feel the love of God. "There is that sense of being very intentional because we carry with us the capacity to walk with people to Christ. And he's saying husbands and wives, you also have that potential," Archbishop Kurtz said.

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