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The Catholic Church's stance on allowing divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion, from Vatican II to the present day, with varying interpretations and implementations by different bishops and dioceses.
Since has oscillated between a strict doctrinal line that bars divorced-and-remarried Catholics from and a more pastoral, case-by-case approach championed by ; the result is a patchwork of episcopal i...
treats marriage as a lifelong, sacramental bond and requires a formal tribunal process — a decree of nullity (commonly called an ) — before a divorced person may validly remarry in the Church; alone d...
’s 2016 interventions on divorced and civilly remarried Catholics—centering on his apostolic exhortation and a subsequent private letter—shifted the emphasis from blanket exclusion toward pastoral dis...