I avoided the thousand-comment tempests on Amoris Laetitia and have no interest in getting embroiled in a debate about the Great Papal Footnote. But come on. There are exceptions to the indissolubility of marriage in the gospel itself and in Paul. Annulment is also an end run around the indissolubility of marriage. Amoris Laetitia is consistent with this timeless Catholic tradition.

I have often pondered, as I witnessed certain vicious rats scurry up to the communion rail and fall on their knees to receive, how arbitrary is the doling out of scarlet letters. For all we know a divorced and remarried couple are the closest to God of anyone in the room.

Science offers understanding of the nature of reality, and for religion to remain relevant it must resonate with reality. Homosexuality was once believed to be willful defiance of a fundamentally heterosexual nature. We know that's not true.