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‘Amoris Laetitia’ at 10: The history, tensions and legacy
58 minutes Posted Oct 5, 2026 at 8:10 pm.
10 years after Amoris Laetitia
Pope Francis calls the Synod on the family
What was at stake?
Two temptations in the Synod
Overcoming tensions and polarization
Divorced and remarried Catholics
Challenges facing families
What does Amoris Laetitia say?
Access to the Sacraments?
A controversial document
Implementing Amoris Laetitia
Pope Leo wants to discuss it
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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.
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