Cardinal-designate Kevin Farrell believes the US bishops as a whole should have discussed pastoral guidelines for implementing Pope Francis's exhortation on the family before individual bishops began issuing guidelines for their own dioceses.
Implementing the Pope's exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, he said, "has to be done in communion with our bishops. I think that it would have been wiser to wait for the gathering of the conference of bishops where all the bishops of the United States or all the bishops of a country would sit down and discuss these things."
