The issue is getting press again. This time, the Vatican's former top judicial official said, "In itself, divorce is not a sin, and in certain cases it could even be recommended, to resolve patrimonial or civil problems."
Just another outspoken priest, like the kind that continue to plague America? Probably. The same article says later:
The question of whether Catholics should be allowed to receive Communion after divorce and remarriage has prompted some intense debate in recent years. The Vatican has consistently answered in the negative, upholding the traditional teaching that a valid marriage can never be set aside, and a second union is therefore adulterous. In October, after a lively discussion of the issue, the Synod of Bishops affirmed the existing norm, barring remarried Catholics from the Eucharist.
Nevertheless, opinions on the controversial issue appear divided even within the Roman Curia. Cardinal Walter Kasper, the president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, has argued in the past for allowing divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion. Shortly after the conclusion of the October Synod, Cardinal Kasper said that he did not think the question was closed, despite the Synod's statement. His public statement drew a rebuke from Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, who said that any suggestion the Church might change her invariable teaching was "unacceptable." The Synod "left no doubt about the doctrine of the Church," Cardinal Lopez Trujillo observed.
