Wednesday, September 14, 2016 Pope endorses softer approach to divorceesPope Francis waves to faithful at the end of the Angelus noon prayer he delivered from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016. Francis was Archbishop of Buenos Aires immediately prior to elected as pope. The keenest anticipation centred on what he would say about the full re-integration into the Church of Catholics who divorce and remarry in civil ceremonies. The number of divorces has risen markedly in recent decades in most of the leading economies grouped in the OECD. Here I am not speaking only of the divorced and remarried, but of everyone, in whatever situation they find themselves,” the pope said in July.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald September 14, 2016 11:15 UTC