Pope Francis makes his letter to Argentine bishops on ‘Amoris Laetitia’ part of the official record

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Describing them as “authentic magisterium,” Pope Francis ordered the official publication of his letter to a group of Argentine bishops and their guidelines for the interpretation of “Amoris Laetitia,” his apostolic exhortation on the family.

According to a brief note by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, Pope Francis wanted his letter and the bishops’ document to be published on the Vatican website and in the “Acta Apostolicae Sedis,” the official record of Vatican documents and acts.

The papal letter, dated Sept. 5, 2016, was written in response to guidelines published by the bishops in the Catholic Church’s Buenos Aires region. Pope Francis said the bishops’ document “explains precisely the meaning of Chapter VIII of ‘Amoris Laetitia.’ There are no other interpretations.”
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This is what Canon lawyer Edward Peters has to say about this:


An excerpt from the “conclusion” of Edward Peters post says:
Unless Canon 915 itself is directly revoked, gutted, or neutered, it binds ministers of holy Communion to withhold that most august sacrament from, among others, divorced-and-remarried Catholics except where such couples live as brother-sister and without scandal to the community.
Nothing I have seen to date, including the appearance of the pope’s and Argentine bishops’ letters in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis, makes me think that Canon 915 has suffered such a fate.
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Regarding the Argentine Bishops document itself, back in an interview published on Ncregister in October, Cardinal Müller said of it, “if you look at what the Argentine bishops wrote in their directive, you can interpret this in an orthodox way.”
 
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Cardinal Mueller isn’t the Pope, neither is Edward Peters.

Hope this helps.

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