The Home Front
The Home Front
Leila and Phil Lawler
Spanish Bishops challenge Amoris Laetitia; will Pope Tawadros move the Catholic Church away from gay blessings? And wokeness comes for classic mystery novels!
53 minutes Posted Jun 5, 2026 at 6:08 pm.
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Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love): apostolic letter of Pope Francis

Michael Haynes on X: Debate about Amoris Laetitia has renewed

The president of the Episcopal Conference reminds everyone that one cannot receive communion if the marriage breaks down and there is another relationship.

God Has No Grandchildren: A guided reading of Pius XI’s encyclical Casti Connubii, On Chaste Marriage (affiliate link) by Leila M. Lawler, Foreword by George Cardinal Pell

Fiducia Supplicans — Vatican document on “gay” blessings

Coptic Orthodox Church report on May 2024 meeting between Pope Tawadros and Cardinal Fernandez

May 4 letter from Pope Leo to Pope Tawadros

Ngaio Marsh, Inspector Roderick Alleyn mysteries, Death in Ecstasy (affiliate link)

Agatha Christie novels reworked to remove potentially offensive language — other works as well!

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