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Footnotes
- Leo XIV, “Message of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia,” Vatican.va, Mar. 19, 2026, https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/messages/pont-messages/2026/documents/20260319-messaggio-amorislaetitia.html. (All emphasis of this article’s author is in italics. Original emphasis is shown in bold.)
- See Luiz Sérgio Solimeo, “A New and Confusing Explanation of ‘Amoris Laetitia,’” TFP.org, Mar. 20, 2017, https://www.tfp.org/new-confusing-explanation-amoris-laetitia/.
- Pope Francis, post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia, Vatican.va, https://www.vatican.va/content/dam/francesco/pdf/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20160319_amoris-laetitia_en.pdf.
- See Luiz Sérgio Solimeo, “Because of Its Grave Errors ‘Amoris Laetitia’ Should Be Rejected,” TFP.org, May 4, 2016, https://www.tfp.org/because-of-its-grave-errors-amoris-laetitia-should-be-rejected/.
- Michele M. Ippolito, “Padre Lanzetta (Francescani dell’Immacolata): “La correctio Filialis è un atto d’amore verso il Papa,” LaFedeQuotidiana.it, Dec. 28, 2017, https://web.archive.org/web/20190721215057/http://www.lafedequotidiana.it/padre-lanzetta-francescani-dellimmacolata-la-correctio-filialis-un-atto-damore-verso-papa/, accessed Sept. 30, 2026.
- Edward Pentin, “Full Text and Explanatory Notes of Cardinals’ Questions on ‘Amoris Laetitia,’” National Catholic Register, Nov. 14, 2016, https://www.ncregister.com/blog/full-text-and-explanatory-notes-of-cardinals-questions-on-amoris-laetitia.
- Pope Francis, “Conferencia de prensa del Santo Padre durante el vuelo de regreso a Roma,” Vatican.va, Apr. 16, 2016, https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/es/speeches/2016/april/documents/papa-francesco_20160416_lesvos-volo-ritorno.html. (Our translation.)
- Henry Denzinger, The Sources of Catholic Dogma, trans. Roy J. Deferrari (Fitzwilliam, NH: Loreto Publications, n.d.) 456, https://thoughtfulcatholic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Denzinger-The-Sources-Of-Catholic-Dogma-reduced.pdf.
- See “Correctio filialis de haeresibus propagatis,” “Summary of the ‘Filial Correction,’” https://www.correctiofilialis.org/, accessed Sept. 30, 2026. See also “Correctio filialis de haeresibus propagatis,” https://www.correctiofilialis.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Correctio-filialis_English_1.pdf.
- “Summary of the ‘Filial Correction.’”
- “Summary”
- Luciano Moia, “Amoris laetitia e Lutero, quegli incroci sorprendenti,” Avvenire, Dec. 12, 2024, https://www.avvenire.it/famiglia/amoris-laetitia-e-lutero-quegli-incroci-sorprendenti_83609. (Our translation.) See also: Stefano Fontana, “Luther Exalted by Italian Bishops’ Daily as Precursor of Amoris Laetitia,” NewDailyCompass.com, Dec. 16, 2024, https://newdailycompass.com/en/luther-exalted-by-italian-bishops-daily-as-precursor-of-amoris-laetitia.
- M. Luther, Werke, (Weimar Edition), 56, 272 & 513; See Erwin Iserloh, Joseph Glazik, and Hubert Jedin, Reformation and Counter Reformation, trans. Anselm Biggs and Peter W. Becker (London: Burns & Oates, 1980), 27, https://archive.org/details/reformationcount0005iser/page/n6/mode/1up.
- “Let Your Sins Be Strong: A Letter From Luther to Melanchthon,” Letter no. 99, August 1, 1521, from the Wartburg (Segment), translated by Erika Bullmann Flores, from: _Dr. Martin Luther’s Saemmtliche Schriften_, Dr. Johannes Georg Walch, Ed. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, n.d.), 15:2585—90, https://www.projectwittenberg.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/letsinsbe.txt.
- Pius XI, encyclical Casti connubii (on Christian marriage) (Dec. 31, 1930), nos. 19, 23, https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19301231_casti-connubii.html.
- All quotations in this article (unless another source is mentioned) use the 1905 version of Father F. X. Schouppe’s Purgatory, published in Great Britain by Burns, Oates and Washbourne, Ltd. It is in the public domain and available through the Internet Archive. The spellings of certain words may have been Americanized.