‘Amoris Laetitia’ at 10: The history, tensions and why Pope Leo wants to revisit Francis’ signature document

By Inside the Vatican, 9 October 2026

 

Pope Francis biographer Austen Ivereigh and America executive producer Sebastian Gomes join Colleen Dulle to discuss this week’s Vatican meeting on “Amoris Laetitia,” 10 years after Pope Francis published his controversial exhortation on marriage and the family.

Austen and Sebastian recap the tense 2014 and 2015 synods on the family, what Pope Francis decided in “Amoris Laetitia” and what is to be discussed at a Vatican meeting on the document to be held Oct. 7-14 for the heads of the world’s conferences of bishops.

With thanks to America and Inside the Vatican, where this article originally appeared.

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