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Pope makes Catholic divorce easier Pope Francis makes it easier for Catholics to remarry
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Pope Francis makes it easier for Roman Catholics to divorce and remarry within the Church Pope Francis has unveiled reforms intended to make it easier for Roman Catholics to divorce and remarry within the Church.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. The radical reforms allow access to procedures free of charge and fast track decisions, as well as removing automatic appeals.
If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App then details on how to do so are available on this help page. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. In order to separate, Catholics must have their marriage annulled by showing it was flawed from the outset.
Until now the procedures have been seen as arcane, expensive and bureaucratic.