The Pope’s New Apostolic Exhortation… Seeking Stable Principles Is Not “Rigidity,” But Sanity
By ROBERT ROYAL (Editor’s Note: This essay by Robert Royal first appeared April 11 on the website The Catholic Thing [www.thecatholicthing.org.] Copyright 2018. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.) + + + Among the many sad consequences of the divisions Pope Francis has exacerbated within the Church, we’re now forced to live with an undeniable reality: Even when he says good things — and there are many such in his new Apostolic Exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate (“Rejoice and Be Glad: On the Call to Holiness in Today’s World”) — they inevitably get drawn into the trench warfare he helped create. His supporters often argue that opposition to the kind of changes he made in a document like Amoris Laetitia stems…Continue Reading