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Vatican official: Synod won’t change doctrine
- Sep 15, 2014
ROME — The Vatican’s top official for the family says that October’s Synod of Bishops will debate altering church rules barring divorced and remarried Catholics from communion, but considers its emphasis will probably be on practical strategies for helping couples rather than changing doctrine. Italian Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of
Three divorced Catholics, three viewpoints
- Sep 10, 2014
Three divorced Catholics, three viewpoints on whether the bishops attending next month’s Synod on the family should loosen the rules to let Catholics who divorced and then remarried without an annulment receive Communion. One thinks the current policy is simply unenforceable, unless the Vatican starts hanging wanted posters of divorced
The old debate on divorce and Communion has a new wildcard: Francis
- Sep 9, 2014
As summer turns to autumn, the most compelling storyline in Rome is a highly anticipated summit of Catholic bishops from around the world, which shapes up as a key test of how much the status quo in the Church has been upended by a charismatic pope from a foreign land
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