IMAGINE the situation of a Catholic woman who enters a long-term union with a man who has been abandoned by his wife. The devout lady raises the man's children and bears him another child. Even if she so desired, it is clear that she cannot leave her current relationship without doing harm to her child and stepchildren. Although that conscientious mother is technically an adulteress in the eyes of the church, she not only could but positively should be offered access to holy communion, which is Christianity's most sacred rite, according to a senior cardinal whose job is to interpret church law.
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