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Amoris Laetitia (Latin for The Joy of Love) is the postsynodal apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis. Dated March 19, 2016, and released on April 8, 2016. It uses the Synods on the Family performed in 2014 and 2015. Its advantages and nine chapters consist of 325 numbered paragraphs. Quotations are attracted from preceding popes, documents of the next Vatican Council and local bishops' conferences, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Rev. Martin Luther Ruler, Jr. It includes what is thought to be the first reference to a film in a papal document, Babette's Feast (1987), along with personal references to functions by Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Antonin Sertillanges, Gabriel Marcel, and Mario Benedetti. The Joy of Love has an advantages and nine chapters: Introduction Francis begins by noting a section of opinion through the synods: "The debates carried on in the mass media, in certain publications and even among the list of Church's ministers, range between an immoderate desire to have total change without sufficient reflection or grounding, for an attitude that could solve everything through the use of general rules or deriving undue conclusions from particular theological things to consider." He didn't propose to solve those distinctions by imposing unity: "Unity of teaching and practice is obviously necessary in the Church, but this does not preclude various ways of interpreting some areas of that teaching or drawing certain repercussions from it. This will be the situation as the Spirit manuals us towards the complete truth" (paragraph three). He warns the listener that the document addresses many issues in many different ways, and for that reason, "I really do not advocate a rushed reading of the text." He asks the listener to consider the text "patiently and carefully" (paragraph seven).