Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2015 21:33:32 GMT
Catholic bishops called for a more welcoming church for cohabitating couples, gays and Catholics who have divorced and civilly remarried, endorsing Pope Francis' call for a more merciful and less judgmental church.
Conservatives had resisted offering any wiggle room in determining, for example, whether civilly remarried Catholics can receive Communion since church teaching forbids it.
Francis took some of the most divisive wind out of the debate before the synod began by passing a new law making it easier for divorced couples to obtain an annulment, a church declaration that their marriage was invalid.
www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-takes-swipe-at-conservative-bishops-as-synod-on-families-ends/
Is there any distinction between children of a valid marriage and children of an invalid marriage?
Does it ever make any difference to a child that they were born to an invalid marriage?