1. In vein of my column on @pontifex's governing style, a way to think about #AmorisLaetitia is as an invitation to work toward the pope.
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2. Exhortation makes it clear that pope *wants* to admit remarried to communion without having a clear vision of how to square w/doctrine.
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3. So what happens in response is a kind of competition of papal loyalists to come up w/best model for how papal will can be fulfilled.
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4. That's why we keep hearing "Amoris is very clear!" from ppl whose arguments for what it means differ dramatically from one another.
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5. Argentina, Buttiglione, S. Diego, Germany, Malta, now Coccopalmerio - they're all coming up w/different ways of justifying pope's desire.
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6. Different in scope but also different in justification, applying to different situations, etc. Hard to harmonize w/one another.
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7. But they aren't trying to harmonize with one another; they're trying to give the pope what he wants, and flailing a bit in the process.
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8. Theology aside, it's an interesting illustration of how a personalized populism above produces legal uncertainty below.
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"Will no one rid me of this troublesome sacrament?"
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