In this week’s episode of “Inside the Vatican,” Pope Francis biographer Austen Ivereigh and America executive producer Sebastian Gomes join Colleen Dulle to discuss this week’s Vatican meeting on “Amoris Laetitia,” ten years after Pope Francis published his controversial exhortation on marriage and the family. Austen and Sebastian recap the tense 2014 and 2015 synods on the family, what Pope Francis decided in Amoris Laetitia and what is to be discussed at a Vatican meeting on the document to be held Oct. 7-14 for the heads of the world’s conferences of bishops.

Chapters:
00:00 10 years after Amoris Laetitia
2:09 Pope Francis calls the Synod on the family
11:30 What was at stake?
14:50 Two temptations in the Synod
19:26 Overcoming tensions and polarization
21:50 Divorced and remarried Catholics
27:56 Challenges facing families
30:30 What does Amoris Laetitia say?
37:54 Access to the Sacraments?
40:39 A controversial document
42:44 Implementing Amoris Laetitia
44:22 Pope Leo wants to discuss it

Bishops are meeting at the Vatican next week to discuss ‘Amoris Laetitia.’ Here’s what you need to know: https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-dispatch/2026/10/02/amoris-laetitia-vatican-meeting-pope-leo-family
Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future by Pope Francis and Austen Ivereigh: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Let-Us-Dream/Pope-Francis/9781982171872
Communion for the divorced and remarried, papal critics and family life: Pope Francis’ ‘Amoris Laetitia’ at 5 years: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/04/08/amoris-laetitia-pope-francis-five-years-divorced-remarried-catholics-240412/

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