Cardinals Cupich, McElroy, Tobin and Fernández are on Pope Leo's personal guest list for Rome's Amoris Laetitia meeting. Cardinal Burke is not — and neither is any cardinal who signed the dubia. Plus, Bishop Athanasius Schneider's exclusive: Amoris Laetitia is "against divine law" and must be explicitly corrected.

Ten years after Amoris Laetitia, about 190 bishops are meeting behind closed doors at the Vatican, October 7–14. Dr. Anthony Stine of Return to Tradition joins Joe to walk through who was invited and who was left out — Cardinals Burke, Müller, Brandmüller, Sarah and Zen among them — and what that guest list says about where the Amoris debate goes from here.

Michael Haynes of the Catholic Herald brings his exclusive interview with Bishop Schneider, who calls Amoris Laetitia a practical denial of the indissolubility of marriage and an attack on the sanctity of the Holy Eucharist. Haynes also covers Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle's appointment as Dean of the College of Cardinals, succeeding Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, and Cardinal Gerhard Müller's defense of Mary as Co-Redemptrix at the "De Maria numquam satis" conference in Rome — a year after the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith called the title "always inopportune."

SCRIPTURE (Douay-Rheims):

• Matthew 19:6 — "What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder."
• 1 Corinthians 11:27 — "Whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord."
• Luke 1:38 — "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done to me according to thy word."

FURTHER READING:

• Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia (8 April 2016)
• The dubia of four cardinals (19 September 2016)
• Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Mater Populi Fidelis (4 November 2025)

IN THE NEWS:

• Catholic Herald — EXCLUSIVE: Bishop Schneider says Amoris Laetitia is "against divine law" https://thecatholicherald.com/article/exclusive-bishop-schneider-amoris-laetitia-against-divine-law
• Catholic Herald — Filipino Cardinal Tagle named as Dean of the College of Cardinals https://thecatholicherald.com/article/filipino-cardinal-tagle-named-as-dean-of-the-college-of-cardinals
• Per Mariam — Cardinal Müller on Mary's role as Co-Redemptrix https://www.permariam.com/p/cardinal-muller-marys-role-as-co
• Return to Tradition — Cardinal Burke Banned From Amoris Laetitia Vatican Conference https://returntotradition1.substack.com/p/cardinal-burke-banned-from-amoris

DR. ANTHONY STINE:

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ReturnToTradition

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