[armydoc]

Either the current Pope is teaching what the Church has always taught, or he is contradicting what the Church has always taught

And therein lies the rub. "What the Church has always taught" encompasses a huge body of practice, pronouncements, documents, etc. A Catholic must, by necessity, employ personal interpretation regarding what (or who) is authoritative and what (who) isn't. A Catholic, looking at AL, must by necessity employ personal interpretation and come to a conclusion.

[Arthur McGowan]

Well, if your definition of “personal interpretation” is “having an intellect,” fine.

The best course for a Catholic is:

1) be familiar with the teaching of the Catholic Church prior to 2013;

2) ignore Bergoglio, because he will be gone soon.

[Arthur McGowan]

You grossly exaggerate about the “huge body of doctrine” at issue in AL.

The matters at issue are nothing of the kind. Here is what the Catholic Church teaches:

1) Matrimony is indissoluble.

2) Divorce does not exist.

3) A person who, being married to someone, “divorces” that person and “marries” another, or begins, without “marriage,” to live in concubinage with another, commits adultery.

4) Adultery is grave matter.

5) No person may receive absolution or Communion without a firm intention to desist from the commission of grave sin.

That’s all all this fuss is about. AL is designed to cast doubt on ## 3, 4, and 5. Therefore, AL will eventually be repudiated by this or a future Pope, and will be rejected in the meantime by all who adhere to the Catholic Faith.