BY Daniel Harkins | August 5 | 
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Church doors remain open to those who remarry, Pope says
Holy Father stresses God’s infinite love, not excommunication, today at his first general audience after a July break
Pope Francis today renewed hope for Catholics who remarry by stressing that they are ‘not by any means excommunicated’ from the Church.
The Pope said that while the Church knows well that such a situation—when a Catholic who is not a widow or widower remarries—contradicts the Christian Sacrament, there are no closed doors in the house of the father and that the Church is always looking with the ‘heart of a mother’ to seek out the good for people.
The Pope made the comment when speaking at the Vatican during his first general audience since a summer break in July.
“How can we recommend to these parents to do all [they can] to educate their children in the Christian life, giving them the example of a sure and practiced faith, if we put them at a distance from the life of the community, as if they might have been excommunicated?” he reasoned.
“These persons are not by any means excommunicated,” he said, ahead of the October Synod on the Family
The Church, the Pope said, is a place were no one is excluded from infinite love.
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