The Italian diocese of Vittorio Veneto late last month became the latest to issue guidelines for the implementation of Pope Francis’s 2016 post-synodal exhortation Amoris Laetitia. Predictably, the news caused a stir in the Italian Catholic press, and even made it into the English-speaking news cycle.
The diocese shared the document with the Catholic Herald. The pastoral indications present a programme of outreach that encourages the careful examination of individual couples’ cases, with the guidance of a pastor and under the watchful eye of the local ordinary, supported by groups dedicated to pastoral care of people in difficult situations.
