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DON’T TREAT DIVORCED CATHOLICS AS OUTCASTS, SAYS POPE
Pope Francis has declared that divorced Catholics who remarry deserve better treatment from the church, warning pastors against treating these couples as if they were excommunicated.
Speaking to pilgrims and tourists Wednesday at his first general audience after a summer break, the pope said: "People who started a new union after the defeat of their sacramental marriage are not at all excommunicated, and they absolutely must not be treated that way.
“They always belong to the church.”
Divorced Catholics who remarry are seen as living in sin and are not allowed to receive communion during church services, but some have been calling on the church to reverse that.
Francis' comments come ahead of a Synod church council meeting to be held by the Vatican in October, where the issue of divorce will be discussed in the wider topic of family.
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