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 ...

Pope Francis is continuing on his mission to bring the traditional Catholic church’s into the modern ... He talked of how divorced couples should be looked at with more understanding – not ...

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. Francis ...

I recently attended a service held for of an old neighbor who passed away and was shocked to learn that she was Catholic ... the divorced and remarried made me realize how much these couples ...

deserve better treatment from the church, warning pastors against treating these couples as if they were excommunicated. Catholic teaching considers divorced Catholics who remarry without a Decree ...

the pope doesn't directly change church law — which holds that couples who divorce and remarry without getting a Catholic annulment are committing adultery and cannot receive communion.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) In a new book to be released days before the world’s Catholic ... to moderate church doctrine on marriage and offer Communion to divorced Catholics who remarry.

So you want to get married in the Catholic Church ... carry as a result.Sometimes the legal language the church uses around divorce and remarriage can seem cold or analytical; it tends to talk ...

Remarriage is always allowed if the couple's former spouses are ... to be blessed in church afterwards. The Catholic Church has strict guidelines on divorce. The Church considers the bond of ...

“In fact, Muslim Filipinos who are covered by the Constitution are granted the right to divorce and remarry,” Lagman ... “Even the Catholic Church has its own canonical divorce, which ...