AMORIS LAETITIA: A RADICAL “YES” TO THE PASTORALITY OF MORAL THEOLOGY

Abstract

This article underlines the conflict at the core of the Church’s discussions about Amoris Laetitia. After exploring the centrality of the subject in the moral decision-making process and the need to integrate both the objective and subjective dimensions of morality, it presents certain ambiguities, inherited from the tradition, regarding matrimony and sexuality that are worth reconsidering. It also suggests that such a task be done in the light of the precedence Pope Francis has given to love and mercy, specifically regarding the objectivity of norms, as well as of his priority for pastoral practice, as a hermeneutical criterion for a moral reflection.