Cardinal Erdo Opens Synod With Defense of Indissolubility of Marriage

NCRegister: He [Erdo] added that “God’s mercy offers forgiveness to sinners but requires conversion,” and, in this case, “a couple’s sin does not lie first and foremost in whatever behavior may have led to the breakup of the first marriage.” The reason they cannot receive the Eucharist “is not because of the failure of their first marriage, but because of the cohabitation in their second relationship,” he said. More of the report is here.