As judicial vicar for the Harrisburg Diocese, the Rev. Paul Clark works closely with couples who are in the process of getting a divorce or seeking to remarry. Gone, he says, are the days when U.S ...

But the church could go further by applying much of what the pope’s letter advocates with regard to the divorced and remarried to Catholics in interfaith marriages.

Pope Francis Calls For More Grace, Less Dogma On Divorce And Remarriage : The Two-Way On Friday, Pope Francis announced that the Catholic Church should work with couples to determine the best ...

where treatment of such couples will be a key topic. “He wants the church to get over a psychology that if you’re divorced and remarried that you’re a lesser Catholic,” said Phillip ...

issued a powerful call for the church to embrace Catholics who have divorced and remarried, telling a gathering at the Vatican that such couples “are not excommunicated, and they absolutely must ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) In a new book to be released days before the world’s Catholic bishops gather at the Vatican, hard-liners are challenging moves to moderate church doctrine on marriage and ...

Catholic teaching considers divorced Catholics who remarry are living in sin and are not allowed to receive Communion, leaving many of these people feeling shunned by their church.

Declaring that “today is a time of mercy,” Pope Francis on Sunday closed a historic meeting of bishops that approved an important new direction in welcoming divorced and civilly remarried ...

'The church knows well that such a situation contradicts the Christian sacrament,' of marriage. Still, Francis said, the church must always 'seek the well-being and… Advertisement oop ...

PHILADELPHIA – The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Philadelphia ... Eucharist," the guidelines read. Church teaching says that unless divorced and remarried Catholics received an annulment ...

The archbishop emeritus of Prague responds to criticism of his ‘dubia’ about Holy Communion for remarried-and-divorced couples and discusses the major challenges for the Church in the face of ...

Bill O'Reilly's divorce from his ex-wife Maureen McPhilmy got so ugly, he tried to have her booted from the Catholic Church, Gawker reports.O'Reilly and McPhilmy split on April 2, 2010 and ...