Fr. Antonio Spadaro, SJ is the editor-in-chief of La Civilta' Cattolica, an authoritative Jesuit journal at the Vatican. Close to Pope Francis, Fr. Spadaro conducted the first interview with the Pope upon his election in 2013 and is considered a trusted interpreter of the Pope's thought.
In the following op-ed, Fr. Spadaro addresses the controversy in the Catholic Church raised by Pope Francis' document on the family, Amoris Laetitia. In it, he defends Pope Francis from criticism that he has not addressed concerns raised by his document, and says that the conclusions reached in the document were based on a consensus of voices from the bishops' Synod meeting, which Francis held in 2015. Fr. Spadaro suggests that those who criticize the Pope's document may be trying to create division rather than sincerely seek answers.
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