Pope Leo plans global Amoris Laetitia meeting

Pope Leo XIV is convening a week-long, consultative meeting marking 10 years since Pope Francis issued Amoris Laetitia, bringing bishops and other participants together to discuss how the Church has put its teaching on marriage and family into practice. The closed-door gathering will use a synodal-style process and is expected to produce a synthesis report, not a new church document; one focus is pastoral support for families in difficult situations, including separation and divorce. Commentary on the meeting says Leo appears to be continuing Francis’s approach and seeking a broader discussion of the exhortation’s vision, rather than revisiting only the contentious debate over Communion for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics.