Pope’s Exhortation . . . At First Glance . . . Fr Z . . . “We have dodged a bullet . . .”
The day before The Big Letter™ comes out (aka the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris laetitae), I received this meme from a reader: A couple notes in advance of its release. First and foremost, tens of people will ever read the whole thing. I don’t think the people who wrote it read the whole thing. I will not violate the embargo by quoting specific texts, but I can say that the document is not a theological disaster, as some have predicted. We have dodged a bullet, at least dodged a round to center mass. Taken as a whole, The Big Letter™ doesn’t have to be a pastoral disaster either. However, some will not want to take the whole of The Big Letter™ into consideration. They will focus…Continue Reading