“Amoris Laetitia” is not binding and is little more than dicta in its formulation and less in authority due to its conflict with basic Church teaching, ecclesiology, metaphysics and teliology. It is the “Star Wars Holiday Special” of papal documents, and best unacknowledged the way Carrie Fisher denies that there was a “Star Wars Holiday Special”.
I agree.
But the problem is the effects on the Church, the Catholics and the world at large.
“Satan disguises himself as an angel of light” (2Cor 11:14).
“Then one considers the greater part of the Catholics are convinced that what the Pope says is infallible, the game is done. Even if one protests that a letter to Scalfari or an interview to whoever, might be less than the opinion of a private doctor, in the era of media technology, the effect that will be produced will be much greater than any solemn pronouncement. In fact, the more the gesture or the talk is formally small and insignificant, the more it will have an effect and will be considered as unassailable and beyond criticism.” (“Letter to fellow Priests”; http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/12/letter-to-fellow-priests.html).
Let’s boil it down; Amoris Laetitia is the club for perverts to hit the faithful on the head to get them to accept their conduct, and the faithful will not take this situation forever.
Witty.