Did Pope Francis really tell a divorced woman to take Communion? [View all]

David Gibson

(RNS) Did Pope Francis tell a divorced and remarried woman that it was okay to take Communion even though her parish priest denied her the host?

That’s the latest kerfuffle apparently created by the “cold-call” pope who on Monday, the day after Easter, reportedly called an Argentine woman who had written to him about whether she should receive communion at Mass even though she was divorced and remarried.

“There are priests who are more papist than the pope,” the pope himself allegedly told Jacquelina Lisbona.

Great line, great story — but is any of it true? The details have been shifting.

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