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Letter Number Three | Xavier Rynne II, ed. | First Things

In today’s LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD…

· Robert Royal recaps the serious problems that arose at last year’s Synod, and what those portend for this year’s.

· EPPC’s George Weigel argues that Walter Cardinal Kasper’s analogy—between Vatican II’s handling of religious freedom and the Syond’s handling of pastoral care for the divorced and remarried—fails completely.

· Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit discusses how his experience as a pastor shapes his understanding of the crisis in marriage and the family, and how these experiences shape his hopes for the Synod.

· In an open letter to the Synod Fathers, the Catholic Women’s Forum (directed by EPPC’s Mary Rice Hasson) express their love for Pope Francis and fidelity to the Church’s beautiful teachings on marriage.
Letter Number Three | Xavier Rynne II, ed. | First Things

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