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Aboard the papal plane, Apr 16, 2016 \/ 01:25 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Pope Francis has said that the family is in crisis, and that is a much bigger issue than communion for the divorced and remarried. He suggested the news media had focused too much on the latter issue during the synod and in coverage of his recent document on the family.<\/p>\n

The Pope spoke with journalists on his plane flight back from visiting refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos April 16.<\/p>\n

A reporter from the French newspaper Le Figaro asked why his post-synod document \u201cAmoris Laetitia\u201d treats access to the sacraments for the divorced and remarried in a footnote.<\/p>\n

In response, Pope Francis noted a recent Pope\u2019s reflections on the Second Vatican Council. There was the council as it took place in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica, and there was the \u201ccouncil of the media<\/a>\u201d that covered the event, Pope Benedict XVI had said in February 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I convoked the first synod, the great concern of the media was communion for the divorced and remarried, and, since I am not a saint, this bothered me, and then made me sad,\u201d Pope Francis said, suggesting that he is sad that he can be annoyed.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut do you not realize that that is not important?\u201d he asked. \u201cDon\u2019t you realize that instead the family is in crisis, don\u2019t we realize that the falling birth rate in Europe is enough to make one cry? And the family is the basis of society.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you not realize that the youth don\u2019t want to marry?\u201d he asked. \u201cDon\u2019t you realize that the lack of work or the little work (available) means that a mother has to get two jobs and the children grow up alone? These are the big problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he thought this aspect of the family crisis is certainly in a footnote in \u201cAmoris Laetitia\u201d because he spoke about it in \u201cEvangelii Gaudium,\u201d his 2013 apostolic exhortation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmoris Laetitia\u201d is the Pope\u2019s post-synodal exhortation published April 8. It reflected upon the bishops\u2019 synods on the family in October 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n

In a previous question during the Pope\u2019s April 16 in-flight press conference, Francis X. Rocca of the Wall Street Journal, had asked Pope Francis about access to the sacraments for the divorced and remarried and \u201cAmoris Laetitia.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSome sustain that nothing has changed with respect to the discipline that regulates access to the sacraments for the divorced and remarried, that the Law, the pastoral praxis and obviously the doctrine remain the same,\u201d Rocca said. \u201cOthers sustain that much has changed and that there are new openings and possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rocca asked: \u201care there new, concrete possibilities that didn\u2019t exist before the publication of the exhortation or not?\u201d<\/p>\n

Pope Francis answered: \u201cI can say yes, many. But it would be an answer that is too small.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pope recommended Cardinal Christoph Schonborn\u2019s presentation of the exhortation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll find the answer there,\u201d the Pope said.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, the Archbishop of Vienna, led the April 8 press conference releasing the document.<\/p>\n

The cardinal had said there had been \u201ctoo much concentration\u201d on the questions regarding the pastoral care of the divorced-and-remarried. \u201cIt\u2019s a trap to focus everything on this point because you forget the sum total of the situation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Schonborn said the experience of the poor is a key to reading \u201cAmoris Laetitia.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the families of the poor, little steps on the path of virtue are experienced that can be much greater than those who live in \u2018comfortable success\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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