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accompaniment, amoris laetitia, canon law, discipline, pastoral practice, pope benedict, pope francis

Saint Mary’s Seminary, Houston TX
This article was first published at the website of the Catholic Herald on 12 April 2016:
The language of accompaniment is nothing new to the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Lætitia, released last Friday, nor even to the pontificate of Pope Francis.
In his own apostolic exhortation, Sacramentum Caritatis, Pope Benedict XVI used the same term in the same context of the pastoral care of the divorced and remarried.