Speculating on Predicted Pontifical Impact.
Pope Francis’s highly-anticipated post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation, “ Amoris Laetitia ” (The Joy of Love) on love in the family will be released on Friday, 8 April. The Vatican said the Exhortation will be presented to journalists at the Holy See’s Press Office on Friday, 8 April at 11.30. Whilst I think it is fairly pointless to speculate on the contents of the document at this stage, there is a lot of interesting Catholic news at the moment. I thought I would gather some of the elements which have most interested me over the last couple of days and present them to you here, dear reader. The text of the Apostolic Exhortation in Italian, French, English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese (in paper and/or digital format) will be available to accredited journalists from 8.00 a.m. (Rome time) on Friday 8th April. However, the document will remain under embargo until 12 noon that day. The panel of speakers at the press conference will include: Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, general...