thanks for this article.  Wouldn't it be lovely if we actually became a church who put into practice the 2 commandments of Jesus - Love of God; Love of self so that we can love one another as we love ourselves.  

And leave the judging of others up to the Divine.  

To me - it has always struck me as "unloving" that at a time of incredible stress and devastation for a number of our parishioners because of a marriage break-up - that folks would be denied the sacraments - particularly the Eucharist which is - according to our teachings - is supposed to feed out souls and hearts.  

I agree with Farrell ... Amoris Laetita is the Holy Spirit speaking to us.  

And I hope Gaillardetz is right ... that Pope Francis is open to respectful dialogue on issues.  

To me - he modelling what we all need to be doing ... gently getting us to rethink our teachings ... and opening up "dogma" for reconsideration.  We are after all ... supposed to have a "living faith".