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The PR disaster of “Amoris laetitia”

Fr. Dwight Longenecker, CRUX

Thursday, August 24, 2017

The first communications problem is that the pope dealt with what was bound to be a controversial topic not with clear teaching, but with sentimental platitudes.

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