Dispelling the Fog : Critical Essays on Amoris Laetitia

2021 was the fifth anniversary of Amoris Laetitia, and according to pope Francis, it should have been a year of reflection on the exhortation, an opportunity to focus more closely on the content of the document.In response to this appeal, Dispelling the Fog presents five essays analysing the issue of the so-called "divorced-remarried" and their access to the Eucharist in connection with the exhortation.Vojtech Simek focuses on the crucial Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia and its possible interpretations.Peter Dvorak examines and refutes the claim that the teaching of the exhortation is Thomistic.Lukas Novak argues that even after Amoris Laetitia, there is no sustainable argument to vindicate the legitimacy of administering the Eucharist to the "remarried" who refuse to commit themselves to abstinence.Stanislav Pribyl interprets the ever increasing demand for unrestricted access to the Eucharist as a manifestation of a general tendency in the post-conciliar Church to abandon the Sacrament of Penance.Finally, Marie Tejklova criticizes the so-called Filial Correction for not adequately addressing the symptoms of modernism in Amoris Laetitia: given that modernism is based on skepticism, it cannot be countered by a mere appeal to the teaching of the Church but calls for a philosophical refutation.The book further includes a foreword by bishop Athanasius Schneider, an afterword by Professor Stanislav Sousedik and rich indices.