Leo XIV summons world’s bishops to entrench ‘heretical’ Amoris Laetitia | Sign of the Cross Media Mon Aug 31, 2026 - 1:37 pm EDTMon Aug 31, 2026 - 7:01 pm EDT VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV has called upon the presidents of the world’s Episcopal Conference to meet in Rome in October in order “to examine and discuss the teachings of Amoris Laetitia and how to proclaim the Gospel to families today,” according to a report from Vatican News. Earlier this year, Pope Leo praised Amoris Laetitia as a guiding text for the Church and signaled his intention to honor Pope Francis’s highly controversial apostolic exhortation, elements of which many consider to be heretical. In March, Pope Leo issued a message marking the tenth anniversary of Amoris Laetitia, in which he described Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhortation as a “luminous message of hope” and confirmed its central role in contemporary teaching on marriage and the family. “On 19 March 2016, Pope Francis offered the …