The “lively response” to the CDF’s 1994 Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church concerning the Reception of Holy Communion by the Divorced and Remarried Members of the Faithful provided several persistent objections to the premise that the divorced and remarried should not be admitted to Communion. Here the CDF returns to the subject in order to address the most significant of these objections.
“It is claimed that the current Magisterium relies on only one strand of the patristic tradition, and not on the whole legacy of the ancient Church.” (source)