Pope Francis has written The Joy of Love (Amoris Laetitia), and it evokes words that had a profound effect on my life – words uttered a decade before Pope Francis even became a priest, and a year before I was born. The pope’s apostolic exhortation reinforced the Catholic Church’s recognition of the truth about the dignity andContinue reading “On the Church, truth, and mercy: “stay as close as you can””