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Doubts about “discernment”
Douglas Farrow, First Things
Monday, March 20, 2017
Those of us struggling with “discernment of situations” (to use the phrase from Familiaris Consortio that was taken up by Amoris Laetitia) are in some perplexity; not so much in the matter of marriage and family life, as in the life of the Church herself. A pope, whose remarks seem somewhat erratic, is one thing. But how are we to reckon with a situation in which the administration of the sacraments, and the theology behind their administration, is succumbing, with his blessing, to regionalism?