divorced and remarried

Prelate close to pope: Divorced/remarried can be teachers, lectors, godfathers
- Mar 4, 2018
Bishop Marcello Semeraro of Albano, Italy, who’s the secretary of Pope Francis’s Council of cardinal advisers, told his priests Friday that “fitting” divorced and remarried Catholics can play roles such as being godfathers and godmothers, religion teachers and lectors at Mass.

By John L. Allen Jr.
Experts serve up some hard data to inform debates over the family
- Feb 27, 2018
“If a country decides not to have children, it’s like committing suicide,” expert says.

By Claire Giangravè
‘Amoris Laetitia’ doesn’t undermine Church teaching on sin
- Apr 13, 2017
‘Amoris Laetitia’ has caused a shift in moral theology — but no innovation: As many have pointed out, it’s wholly consonant even with recent papal teaching, and is rooted in an ancient pastoral tradition. To walk with people living in objective states of sin but with diminished subjective culpability, helping them to do God’s will in their concrete state with the help of the sacraments, doesn’t undermine teaching on sin, but puts into practice the merciful pedagogy of God.

By Austen Ivereigh

Why Catholics uncomfortable with ‘Amoris’ aren’t ‘dissenters’
- Jan 29, 2017
Most Catholics uncomfortable with ‘Amoris Laetitia’ aren’t dissenters or people with an ax to grind against the pope, but rather people who simply want their children to know and follow the Church’s call to sexual integrity and marital fidelity — and, to be clear, that’s not only possible, but life-giving.

By Hilary Towers
Maltese bishops: Remarried Catholics ‘at peace’ can receive Communion
- Jan 13, 2017
In guidelines for the application of Pope Francis’s “Amoris Laetitia”, the bishops of Malta say that divorced and civilly remarried Catholics who, with “an informed and enlightened conscience,” believe they’re at peace with God,”cannot be precluded from participating in the sacraments.”

By Inés San Martín
Conscience can’t be the final arbiter on who gets Communion
- Jan 8, 2017
Typical pastors reading ‘Amoris’ are likely to stumble into accepting its central flaw, namely, assuming that an individual Catholic’s assessment of his or her own conscience is the sole criterion that governs a minister’s decision to give holy Communion to a member of the faithful.

By Edward Peters