Papado do Papa Francisco: renovação pastoral, não mudança doutrinária
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Aug 31, 2021
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Cohabitation, Communion, Conscience, Divorce and remarriage, Pastoral practice, Same-sex unions, Synodality
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Following the publication of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia, four aged Cardinals wrote to him asking him to clarify positions in the Exhortation they charged were causing confusion to the faithful. They even suggested he had changed some Catholic doctrines. This essay answers their questions, arguing that Francis has not changed any Catholic doctrine but has changed, in the sense that he has renewed, Catholic pastoral practice. It also argues that, while not changing any Catholic doctrines, he has reprioritized some of them, especially the doctrines of the authority and inviolability of conscience and what he calls the “irregular situations” of cohabitation, same-sex unions, and divorce and remarriage without annulment.
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G. LAWLER, Michael; A. SAZLMAN, Todd; MARTINS DOS SANTOS NETO, José. Papado do Papa Francisco: renovação pastoral, não mudança doutrinária. HORIZONTE - Journal of Studies in Theology and Religious Sciences, Belo Horizonte, v. 19, n. 59, p. 646, 2021. DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2021v19n59p646. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/horizonte/article/view/27425. Acesso em: 14 aug. 2025.
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