As it “expresses the irreversibility of Christ’s love for His Church”, the Eucharist implies, "in connection with the Sacrament of Marriage, that indissolubility to which every true love cannot but aspire”. This was written by the Pope, who, in the apostolic exhortation “Sacramentum caritatis”, published today, reasserts the uniqueness and indissolubility of Christian marriage, starting from the "original anthropological fact that man must be finally joined to one single woman, and vice versa". As he mentioned the "painful situations" of remarried divorcees, the Pope admits: "It is a thorny and complicated pastoral problem, a true plague in a social context that increasingly affects the Catholic ambiances as well". As he invited the Bishops to "make appropriate distinctions between different situations so as to spiritually help the devotees concerned in appropriate ways”, the Pope confirms the practice of the Church of not admitting remarried divorcees to the sacraments, but he specifies that they "continue to belong to the Church, which takes care of them with special attention, wishing they may cultivate, as far as possible, a Christian lifestyle by attending Holy Mass".
