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Divorced Catholics remarry should be urged to stop living in a
"State of sin," the Vatican said Wednesday in issuing guidelines on
the subject for priests.
Priests should counsel those who have not remarried to remain
faithful to their original vows and not enter into other unions,
according to the guidelines, issued by the Pontifical Council on
the Family.
The Council released its recommendations after a meeting last month
devoted to the pastoral care of divorced but remarried Catholics.
It told priests to show compassion for the faithful whose marriage
have failed, and noted that Pope John Paul II had said the divorced
who remarry still belong to the Church.
But the Church "Must not express any sign, public or private, that
could appear to be a legitimisation of the new union," the document
said.
Priests should invite such couples "To recognize their irregular
situation, which involves a state of sin, and ask God for the grace
of a true conversion."
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