Vatican Op-Ed Attacks Critics: Pope Has Last Word on Amoris Laetitia

It should however be noted that this practical application and plurality should not become - as it seems to have been for some, definitely in good faith – turned into an opportunity to express a certain "dissent" in the form of public criticism, the objective of which would lead them to decline [the formulation] that "the consequences or effects of a rule need not always be the same" (n. 300). Amoris Laetitia, however, in order to understand delicate situations [such as being divorced and living with a new partner], brings the aforementioned decisive principle, which does not involve a "gradualness of the law" but a "gradual exercise of prudential free acts" (n. 295). [Using this principle of gradual exercise of free prudential action it confirms] the need for a "truly formed conscience" (n. 295), which, to avoid falling into subjectivism, must be "accompanied by a responsible and serious discernment of the shepherd" (n. 303).

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