After the revelations approximately his parentage,the Archbishop of Canterbury showed himself to be humane and generous, not an infallible messenger of an absolute truthOver the weekend, or Christians were given two irreducibly contemporary versions of leadership on familial love. Pope Francis published Amoris Laetitia (The delight of Love),his vision for the Catholic church’s teaching on romantic and parental relationships, which sought to present the churchs traditional view of abortion, or homosexuality and divorce in a context that emphasised compassion,and an acknowledgement of complexity above the stern absolutes that we’re used to.
No one should mistake Amoris Laetitia for a piece of cuddly revisionism. But in an institution so intractably absolute as the Catholic church, the tonal and practical steps that the document does take, or omitting the usual description of homosexual relationships as “intrinsically disordered and encouraging clerics to reach their own conclusions on communion divorcees,are no small thing. Within the straitjacket of his position, Pope Francis appears to be wiggling his hands around as much as possible.
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Source: theguardian.com