The current teaching of the Church on marriage breakdown, now under the spotlight at the Synod on the Family in Rome, is unreasonable and potentially psychologically damaging, says one priest who offers a reinterpretation The Church’s present teaching on divorce and remarriage, and its refusal of admission to the sacrament of the Eucharist for those who are divorced and remarried, is a source of profound angst among many Catholics. I believe that there is another way to view the Church’s appreciation of the indissolubility of marriage, and its prohibition of any subsequent marriage after divorce in the absence of an annulment.The present situation is that if a couple divorce and subsequently one of them marries a new partner without having been granted an annulment, then he o