Newman’s verdict on Amoris Laetitia
SIR – Tom McIntyre’s letters are always well informed, articulate and thought provoking, but I think his last one (December 2) rather misses the point. Of course the essential nature of marriage has not changed. The question is: has the essential nature of second marriages while the original spouse is still alive changed? Christ himself said such marriages were adulterous. Are we now being asked to redefine adultery – indeed, in some cases to redefine it out of existence? And are we also being asked to set aside on occasion St Paul’s strictures in 1 Corinthians about the unworthy reception of the Eucharist?
