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Pope Francis’ Amazon exhortation calls for holiness, not married priests

February 12, 2020 Catholic News Agency 27

By Courtney Mares / Catholic News Agency Pope Francis published his response to the Vatican’s 2019 Amazon synod in an apostolic exhortation Wednesday. Despite widespread speculation following the synod, the pope does not call for […]

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“Gaudete et exsultate” is beautiful for its simplicity, frustrating for its failures

April 15, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 8

Pope Francis should be more careful, for he tends to overstate matters and to attack weak sisters even when he does not set up straw […]

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Reading Pope Francis with both respectful docility and critical charity

April 11, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 87

Catholics frustrated with Pope Francis’ style and record of leadership ought not allow partial accounts to poison them against the Holy Father. […]

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Pope Francis to issue apostolic exhortation on holiness, “Gaudete et exsultate”

April 5, 2018 Catholic News Agency 16

Subtitled “on the call to holiness in the contemporary world”, the exhortation will be presented April 9 by Archbishop Angelo De Donatis, vicar general of […]

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