level of the Church: the diocese and the parish. Go to a typical parish Mass to see the fruit of the liturgical experiment of the post-Conciliar Church. The unmooring from the Tradition of the Church is plain to see in the carrying out of the deliberate misunderstanding of the Mass and the disappearance of reverence. Not to mention the precipitous decline in the percentage of Catholics who go to Mass regularly.

But one sees what has happened and is happening to Catholic doctrine also at the local level. I live in one of the most wealthy counties in the United States. There is also poverty in this county. But when the median family income of the county is calculated, the poverty disappears in the wash of super-affluence.

This poverty isof that document. Various
interpretations of this teaching have been presented, and the differing
interpretations have been used both to denounce the document as heretical and
to defend it as in harmony with the teaching of the Church. Pope Francis has
recently acted to clarify the meaning of the most contentious section of Amoris
laetitia through a statement in the October 2017 issue of the Acta
apostolic sedis, the journal that publishes the official acts of the Holy
See (the title of the journal is generally abbreviated as AAS). The meaning and
consequences of this clarification are of the first importance, and need to be
carefully and accurately examined.

The meaning and authority of the AAS statement

The statement
in the AAS has three components: i) a letter from Pope Francis to the bishops
of the Buenos Aires region concerning their