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Papal exhortation avoids clear statement on Communion

Copies of the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia ('The Joy of Love') document are on display prior to the start of a press conference at the Vatican (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

A footnote narrowly addresses the question of Communion for the divorced and remarried

Cardinal Christoph Schonborn (right)  and Cardinal Lorenxo Baldisseri hold a copy of Pope Francis's apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia (CNS)

Cardinal Schönborn: Pope Francis follows John Paul II’s teaching on communion

The cardinal presented the document during a press conference at the Vatican this morning

Copies of the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia ('The Joy of Love') document are on display prior to the start of a press conference at the Vatican (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Papal exhortation avoids clear statement on Communion

A footnote narrowly addresses the question of Communion for the divorced and remarried

Mathew Uzhunnalil, brother of kidnapped Salesian Fr Thomas Uzhunnalil, at his home in Ramapuram, India (CNS photo/Anto Akkara)

Brother of kidnapped priest is staying at home to pray and wait for ‘good news’

Mathew Uzhunnalil is living away from his family, praying and reciting the rosary

A Syrian man carries a child as they disembark from a Greek navy vessel after a rescue operation near the shores of Lesbos  (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Vatican confirms Pope Francis will visit refugees on Greek island

Pope Francis and other Christian leaders to meet migrants next Saturday

Pope Francis (AP)

Catholics and Methodists can teach each other about holiness, says Pope Francis

The Pope tells Methodist leaders that there is a ‘growing closeness’ between the two churches

A woman displays the e-book version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec)

Apostolic exhortation cannot go against the Catechism, says cardinal

Cardinal Brandmüller says admitting remarried Catholics to Holy Communion would ‘undermine’ the Church

A traditional Latin Mass at the Shrine of Ss Peter, Paul and Philomena in New Brighton, the Wirral (Photo: John Aron)

Extraordinary Form Masses drew ‘record’ numbers over Easter, says Latin Mass Society

Attendance was reportedly up by a fifth in key parishes

Francesca Chaouqui arrives at the Vatican for her trial (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

PR expert strongly denies leaking Vatican documents

Francesca Chaouqui also says she did not have a relationship with Mgr Vallejo Balda

Protesters march the street during a 2015 demonstration against President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term in Bujumbura, Burund (CNS photo/Dai Kurokawa, EPA)

Burundi official accuses Church of ‘sponsoring terrorism’ as crisis engulfs the country

Church told its ‘attitudes must change’ as fears grow of civil war

The book 'Half Monks, Half Soldiers' stands for sale at a bookstore in Lima, Peru,  (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peruvian-based movement distances itself from founder accused of abuse

Leaders of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae declared Luis Fernando Figari ‘persona non grata’ after the allegations

Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience (AP)

Pope’s exhortation will focus on ‘dialogue’, says Vatican

The reading guide for bishops says that Amoris Laetitia is “first and foremost a pastoral document”

A Syrian soldier surveys damages at Mar Elian monastery in Qaryatain, (AP Photo)

Relics found in ruined Syrian monastery confirmed as St Elian’s

The relics were discovered amid the rubble of the desecrated Mar Elian Church in Qaryatain

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Pope Francis has released his apostolic exhortation (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Amoris Laetitia: Five key passages you need to read

Here we provide a short summary of the Pope’s apostolic exhortation released today

The Pope has not changed Church teaching (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Francis has delivered an eloquent defence of the Catholic vision of marriage

The Pope’s exhortation makes a crucial reference to John Paul II’s encyclical Familiaris Consortio

The apostolic exhortation is gritty in places (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Amoris Laetitia is ‘kitchen sink theology’ and all the better for it

Francis’s exhortation doesn’t shy away from the often harsh realities of marriage and family life

The document will ignite further debate (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Amoris Laetitia: expect a protracted and perhaps bitter debate

Those who wanted the issue settled so they can get on with life peacefully are likely to be disappointed

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It’s easy to feel powerless when a good priest such as Fr Tom Uzhunnalil is abducted, but we can pray to the souls of priests who were imprisoned unfairly

Chinese Catholics receive Communion in 2012 during Christmas Eve Mass in Beijing (CNS)

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