As a genre, the post-synodal apostolic exhortation poses something of a challenge to a gifted writer like Pope Benedict XVI.
Such exhortations are intended to summarize the proceedings of a three-week-long synod, involving hundreds of speeches by bishops and dozens of advisory resolutions. Then all of the proceedings are massaged by another committee of bishops through several drafts until the...
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