Top Five | Amoris Laetitia 'The Joy of Love'

America's editors offer five takeaways from from Pope Francis' new apostolic exhortation on the family, "Amoris Laetitia"

[ChachiTelevision]

I'm a divorced Catholic currently going through an annulment. It is painful and lonely.

Any priest who won't stand firm on the hard teachings, including communion not being for those in a state of adultery (including divorced and remarried Catholics) are doing a disservice and abandoning their offices of the priesthood.

Tell the truth, stop trying to make us feel good. We want to become saints, not be comfortable.

[donnadavis]

Thank you, Fr. Martin. Though I'm Lutheran, Pope Francis has done more to influence my perspective of the Church than anyone. He is a model of love and compassion. Blessings to him and to you.

[WashArchdiocese]

Thank you for this video, Fr. Martin!

[SeanChitty]

So the role of conscience overides God's Law? This reeks of heresy.

[LeftFootMediaNZ]

Point number 3 is wrong - nowhere in the document does the Pope say that "the final decision about their level of participation in the Church is ultimately left to their conscience."

Point number 4 is wrong - what the Pope actually said was this (emphasis added): "Hence it can no longer simply be said that ALL those in ANY “irregular” situation are living in a state of mortal sin and are deprived of sanctifying grace."
She has misquoted the document (or at least the official version I read), which includes the word "all" before the word "those", and the word "any" before the word "irregular", thus indicating that while not all situations are mortal sin, obviously some are (which is not a change in Church teaching, by the way.)

Point number 5 is wrong - what Pope Francis actually said about same sex relationships was this: "there are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God’s plan for marriage and family. It is unacceptable “that local Churches should be subjected to pressure in this matter and that international bodies should make financial aid to poor countries dependent on the introduction of laws to establish ‘marriage’ between persons of the same sex”

[MrJking]

Boiling the frogs. When did the word sin get replaced with irregular? "The wages of irregularism is death"

[topherodesk]

yeah... Pope Francis said we should accompany these people in irregular unions, BUT he also said that Priests and Bishops should try also to bring them to the light of the Gospel.... you just don't leave people there in the mud... you go to the mud and help them out of it....Encourage them and dialogue with them until they get converted.... even if it takes time and long process....

[gpgpalacios]

great introduction to Pope Francis' views on marriage, sexual mores, and the family.

[Uberdrivingdad]

you realize this exortation is more than chapter 8 BTW not sleeping with someone that's not your wife is not a unrealistic expectation

[Reporterfreebies]

It is already the Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith through Cardina Muller has NO DOCTRINE was Changed and the Discipline there should not be any confusion in Amoris Laetitia anymore...

[rortiz]

@1:30 "...the church is supposed to form consciences, not replace them..."

So the Papacy (not the bible) decides for you how you should feel and think about your relationship to God.

[Reporterfreebies]

the pope also said that there is such a thing as LAW of Gradualness. The Pope did not say that those living and stuck in the dark should remain there. The priests and Bishops should encourage and counsel and dialogue with these people Stuck in the Dark and GRADUALLY remove all the obstacles so that the person can finally be Free of all irregularities and have a Full and complete

[jimbart]

So, does this apply to other objective grave sins now as well? Can anyone, no matter what they are doing, even with publicly known sins, be "discerning", decide that their conscience is cool with it, and then walk right up to receive Holy Communion?

[josipjtmc]

If a non catholic is looking this video it would sound like pope Francis is calling for something new, something different that church was doing so far. His predecessors talked more about mercy, especially saint John Paul II who dedicated his whole pontificate to Divine Mercy.

18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.