Pope Leo XIV greets a newlywed couple in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican after his weekly general audience September 9, 2026. An October 2 press conference at the Holy See Press Office presented details of the upcoming meeting between the pope and the presidents of episcopal conferences, titled “Ten years after Amoris Laetitia: proclaiming the Gospel with families today.” Photo: CNS/Vatican Media. Ten years after Pope Francis sent shock waves through the Catholic Church with his outreach to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, Pope Leo XIV is inviting church leaders to Rome next week to understand how Francis’s document has been implemented. Vatican officials last week stressed that Francis’s 2016 text Amoris Laetitia (“The Joy of Love”) …
