Footnotes and tea leaves: Pope Leo and Amoris Laetitia

Footnotes and tea leaves: Pope Leo and Amoris Laetitia Pope Leo XIV wears a Chicago White Sox baseball cap as he poses for a photo with a newly married couple following his weekly general audience in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican June 11, 2025. Photo: OSV News/Remo Casilli, Reuters.

On March 19, Pope Leo XIV announced a meeting for this coming October to discuss one of his immediate predecessor’s most controversial documents: Amoris Laetitia. Officially a post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation released in May of 2016 after two major synod assemblies on various aspects of family life in the 21st century, the 256-page Amoris Laetitia presented…

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