Pope + Flop = Plop
Divorce is sin. God hates divorce, and Jesus definitely spoke against it (except in the case of adultery). A divorced person who remarries commits adultery. However, we are all sinners. I’m not making light of divorce simply because I acknowledge the reality that many people divorce and remarry. Christ forgives murderers, liars, adulterers, etc. If someone remarries, they must repent or be condemned by that sin, but that is between them and God.
Christ also associated with sinners, although people often forget He told sinners to sin no more. Christ met the Samaritan woman at the well. Did He refuse to take a drink of water from an adulteress? Did He expect her to return to the first of her five “husbands” who had likely long since moved on? How could she be reconciled with God and wipe her transgressions away? What are all the divorced believers supposed to do? Break up new families and marriages or simply repent and make sure they don’t repeat the sin?
The greeting of heads of state along with an irregular woman by the Pope hardly constitutes a decree that the marriage is valid.
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