Stephen Walford has written the book \u201cPope Francis, The Family and Divorce: In Defense of Truth and Mercy.\u201d It attempts to delve deeper into the debate over Pope Francis' Apostolic Exhortation on the family, \u201cAmoris Laetitia.\u201d<\/p>\n
STEPHEN WALFORD<\/strong> The book delves into the history of the Church's discussion on limits to a person receiving communion. A musician by profession, Stephen has always been passionate about the history of Church teaching.<\/p>\n Stephen and his family privately met with the pope on July 27, 2017. Afterward, Stephen received a personal letter from Pope Francis responding to his question over \u201cAmoris Laetitia.\u201d<\/p>\n STEPHEN WALFORD<\/strong> Pope Francis' letter is now a part of the preface of Stephen's new book. In the letter, Pope Francis encourages one to read \u201cAmoris Laetitia\u201d as a whole, rather than one part. <\/p>\n Although Stephen's book was written with the intention for all people to read, he hopes it will help deepen the debate on those in complicated marital situations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 9, 2018. \u201cPope Francis, The Family and Divorce: In Defense of Truth and Mercy\u201d delves into the debate on \u201cAmoris Laetitia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":26972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QQjv_h8PIP8","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bbookonamorislaetitiaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bbookonamorislaetitiaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n \u201cI really wanted to get involved in this and try to explain it from different angles of moral theology and tradition. So people could hopefully understand in a better way what the pope was trying to teach here.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n
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\n\u201cI gave him a letter in Spanish and I asked if he would possibly consider contributing. I spent the rest of my holiday in Rome praying at various tombs of the saints and the popes, asking God to let him say yes. So when I came home, a few days later, there was this large envelope with a personal letter from the pope.\u201d <\/em> <\/p>\n