Per Mariam: Mater Dolorosa

Per Mariam: Mater Dolorosa

Analysis

Bishop Eleganti: The Church promotes ‘closeness’ but sacrifices truth

Familiaris Consortio is therefore a thing of the past because it is ‘too harsh,’ he opined.

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Michael Haynes
Sep 26, 2026
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a guest commentary by Bishop Marian Eleganti OSB, the emeritus auxiliary bishop of Chur and former abbot of St. Otmarsberg Abbey. Interviewed often by this correspondent, Bp. Eleganti has now distributed for publication this column in which he addresses the upcoming Vatican meeting on Amoris Laetitia.

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