Pope Francis And The Catholic Vision Of Marriage

OnlineEditor@theweek.com (Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry), The Week
Wed, 10/07/2015 - 2:02am

The Vatican is holding a big meeting of bishops, called a Synod, to discuss issues of the family. And one issue front and center is whether Catholics who are divorced and remarried can receive communion. Unlike my colleague Michael Brendan Dougherty, I can't imagine that Pope Francis will reverse Catholic teaching on the indissolubility of marriage. According to Catholic doctrine, someone who is in a state of serious sin cannot, for their own spiritual protection, receive communion.

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