IN recent interviews, German Cardinal Walter Kasper suggested that while Catholic Church doctrine cannot change, it can be adapted and interpreted in different ways, and language can be softened when it is deemed offensive.
If an individual divorces their spouse and enters a new civil marriage without an annulment, the second union is "not a sacramental one," Cardinal Kasper acknowledged.
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