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This Insights eNewsletter was sent to subscribers on October 24, 2014.

eNewsletter Subject: The Church Moves On, Slowly

The furor over the 2014 Synod on the Family is subsiding only slowly, as everyone seems to be struggling to switch gears.

Phil Lawler finds himself concerned over negative attitudes toward Pope Francis, often expressed in distinctly unedifying ways. He covers both sides of the question in The Pope is not the problem.

What is lingering most, I think, is hard feelings over the Kasper Proposal. I try to replace heat with light on this issue: Do not confuse sacramental discipline and Catholic doctrine.

In any case, if you'd like to see the best fruits of this particular discussion, putting the family at the center of the New Evangelization, take a look at this: Ignatius Press into the Breach: Trumping the Kasper Proposal....

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