Whichever view one takes of the changes to the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family, now styled the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences, it is absolutely of the essence to keep the facts of the business squarely and closely in focus.
As the story of the “renewal in continuity” Pope Francis inaugurated with the promulgation of his Apostolic Letter motu proprio, Summa familiae cura, juridically suppressing the old institute and establishing the new one grows louder and hotter in its telling, that task becomes more difficult, and more crucial.
