"Amoris Laetitia isn't easily reducible to tweets, or even answers to a single question: Can they or can't they?" he said, referencing the question of whether divorced people who have remarried without receiving annulments might receive Communion in some circumstances.

"It's a whole, I think, rich and challenging ... process of forming conscience in the light of the Gospel and the tradition of the church," said Tobin. "I think it would really be a mistake to just try to reduce it as a sort-of bite-sized response to a couple of very concrete questions."

That sounds like a "No" to divorced and remarried people receiving Communion. He's correct that accompaniment of people in objectively sinful situations is about (re)forming conscience in the light of Christ's words and Church teachings.