Vatican summit to assess 10 years of ‘trying to live’ Amoris Laetitia Vatican officials say the Amoris Laetitia summit will examine what the Church has ‘learned’ from a decade of 'trying to live' the document rather than evaluating the text itself & Catholic Monitor vs. ChatGPT
Vatican summit to assess 10 years of ‘trying to live’ Amoris Laetitia Notes: ChatGPT: Yes. I can reconstruct the substance of our earlier back-and-forth , but I don't have a verbatim transcript of every turn. The earlier discussion developed roughly like this: Our earlier exchange You: The key issue is whether Francis's Buenos Aires position conflicts with what John Paul II taught in Familiaris Consortio 84. Me: Initially, I framed the issue as potentially a question of whether Francis changed a disciplinary/prudential application rather than a doctrine of divine law. You: You objected that this was too easy. John Paul II did not present the Eucharistic restriction merely as a changeable discipline. Familiaris Consortio 84 grounds it in the indissolubility of marriage, Christ's teaching, the objective condition of the couple, and the nature of the Eucharist . Me: I agreed that this substantially strengthens the objection. The question therefore cannot simply b...