Bishops to scrutinise family difficulties

The forum will examine Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’s 2016 apostolic exhortation on marriage and the family, and how it’s being applied to family life 10 years on.

The gathering of presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences from October 7–14 will centre on five themes, including accompanying and supporting families “in the difficulties of life.”

The event will include dialogue about abandonment, separation, and divorce, as well as cohabiting couples, openness to welcoming children, the decline in marriage amongst the young and the transmission of the faith to new generations.

Pope Leo XIV added that several families would also take part in the get-together that will include Roman and Eastern Catholic bishops. The presence of families “is essential,” the pope said. “At the same time, I hope that all those who come will prepare by listening closely to, and bringing with them, the experience of the families in their own Churches.” 

The forum will also “assess the progress made since Amoris Laetitia”.

Pope Francis created a controversy when he wrote that even people in an “objective state of sin” could be eligible to receive the “help of the sacraments”. Previous popes had stated divorced and civilly remarried Catholics could not receive communion unless they lived as brother and sister.

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