Hmm... More sweeping under the carpet?
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His long-awaited apostolic exhortation — titled "Amoris Laetitia," which is Latin for "The Joy of Love" — suggests the church should focus less on how it treats divorcees and more on how to help people remain in loving relationships despite modern challenges such as longer life spans and "rampant individualism."
Remarried worshippers "are not excommunicated" and they should not be treated as such, he explained.
The nine-chapter, 325-paragraph proclamation doesn't change church doctrine, but emphasizes individual conscience over theological dogma and urged priests to be compassionate and inclusive.
more @
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pope-francis-softens-communion-ban-divorcees-shifts-tone-family-n552811
I have never understood the whole denial of communion in the first place. Jesus didn't say let them come to me, but only if they're not divorced.
In fact, and I'm sure this is one reason the Pope didn't want us protestants reading the bible. But the Bible explicitly tells us we should never forbid someone from partaking in communion.
How does this doctrine jive with that scripture? https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2022:7-38
Oh and fwiw if you go the link it sometimes gives you a junk version of the bible like the NIV you have to switch to KJV for that version.