They were always supposed to be reaching out, while not condoning divorce.
Via Times Live:
“These people are not excommunicated … And they absolutely must not be treated as such. They are still part of the church,” the pontiff said at his weekly general audience at the Vatican.
Speaking ahead of a highly anticipated global meeting on family life in October, he said “awareness that a brotherly and attentive welcome … is needed towards those who … have established a new relationship after the failure of a marriage, has greatly increased”.
The church does not recognise divorce but divorcees can still take communion unless they remarry, which is considered to be adultery.