Cardinal urges Church to adapt family teaching at Amoris Laetitia summit

Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, president of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences, told the Vatican summit marking ten years of Amoris laetitia on 8 October that the Church should recognise a "mosaic of diverse realities" rather than an ideal family model. He cited new forms of cohabitation, interfaith unions and changing views of gender, according to LifeSite's critical account. The address shows senior church leaders reframing marriage and family beyond the creation order described in Genesis 2:24 and Matthew 19:4-6, a shift in religious teaching that matters for how Scripture's authority is understood.