‘Amoris Laetitia’ at 10: The history, tensions and legacy

In this week’s episode of “Inside the Vatican,” Pope Francis biographer Austen Ivereigh and America executive producer Sebastian Gomes join Colleen Dulle to discuss this week’s Vatican meeting on “Amoris Laetitia,” ten years after Pope Francis published his controversial exhortation on marriage and the family. Austen and Sebastian recap the tense 2014 and 2015 synods on the family, what Pope Francis decided in Amoris Laetitia and what is to be discussed at a Vatican meeting on the document to be held Oct. 7-14 for the heads of the world’s conferences of bishops.

Chapters:

00:00 10 years after Amoris Laetitia

2:09 Pope Francis calls the Synod on the family

11:30 What was at stake?

14:50 Two temptations in the Synod

19:26 Overcoming tensions and polarization

21:50 Divorced and remarried Catholics

27:56 Challenges facing families

30:30 What does Amoris Laetitia say?

37:54 Access to the Sacraments?

40:39 A controversial document