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Vatican Family Synod Poll: Catholics in Italy Want to Church to Include Divorced and Remarried People

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ThinkStock Vatican 100615?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1444185423602whitewizzard/iStock/ThinkStock(ROME, Italy) — A new poll shows that the vast majority of praciticing Catholics in Italy want the church to include divorced and remarried people in the church.

The poll showed that 85 percent of active Catholics in Italy think their church should start allowing divorced and remarried followers receive the sacraments, something they are now banned from taking part in.

It’s one of the contentious issues, at least for the bishop in Rome who has convened for part two of the Vatican synod on family and sex.

Just a handful of women have been invited to the synod, not as participants but as observers.

The head of the Vatican synod office, Cardinal Baldisseri, said the tiny female presence was included to help the bishops look at family with the “tender, attentive, and compassionate,” way of women.

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