VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter
Joshua J. McElwee | Oct. 21, 2015
VATICAN CITY
The group of German speaking prelates at the ongoing Synod of Bishops — which includes a rather diverse range of so-called progressive and conservative voices — has presented a way that certain divorced and remarried Catholic persons might be allowed to take Communion in the church.
But while their arguments are being echoed by prelates of at least one other language group at the gathering, they have clearly not found support in others — which have closed all openness to any possibility on the matter.
Catholics who remarry are currently prohibited from taking Communion unless they obtain annulments of their first marriages. The issue of the church’s practice in the matter has become one of the most discussed during the Oct. 4-25 Synod, called by Pope Francis to focus on family life issues.
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