JORAS - Nigerian Journal of Religion and Society

Amoris Lætitia has proved to be really momentous. It addresses the state of the family, its challenges in the present age and the role it can still play regardless of the challenges and even hostilities, on the heels of the 2014 and 2015 Synods of Bishops. Curiously, some of us had the erroneous perception that this synod was just about broken marriages, civil divorce, remarriage, access to the sacraments; and same-sex unions. Many of us in this part of the world let the media and western narratives dictate how we followed and interpreted doctrinal and pastoral developments in the church today. Unfortunately, we let this fixation neglect broader issues, especially our issues. This article directs our attention to the dire necessity of praxis-oriented reception of Amoris Lætitia in Nigeria. The contribution analyses reception efforts so far, and ends by offering how deepen and further the much-needed pastoral reception of the post-synodal exhortation especially in Nigeria is at the moment.

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