The Defense of Catholic Marriage

I hope to write something later this week rounding up the conflicted and conflicting reactions from conservative Catholics to Pope Francisâ??s apostolic exhortation on marriage and the family, Amoris Laetitia. (My own provisional reaction appeared in Sundayâ??s paper.) But first I thought Iâ??d respond to my friend Alan Jacobsâ??s bafflement at conservative agita over the idea of giving priests formal discretion (informal, they will always have) to admit divorced and remarried Catholics to communion in the absence of an annulment.