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Pope Francis answers the dubia. Does inaction speak clearer than words?

Pope Francis, the Church learned Monday, answered the dubia. Not — to be clear — the questions posed to him after the 2016 publication of Amoris laetitia — questions so long unanswered that “answer the dubia” has become a meme in some Catholic circles. But the pope answered this summer another set of dubia — questions asked and answered back in July, pertaining to the synod on synodality, and released Monday in a kind of piecemeal fashion…