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the Church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced persons who have remarried.

I had to smile reading this phrase from 1980. Maybe then it meant something, but does this kind of thing have any relevance today? It isn't like the Church controls admittance to communion in any way. The default approach is that the sin is on the person receiving, and so it is up to them to decide if they can or cannot come up for communion. From what I read priests are generally constrained from saying no, which really makes this whole argument moot. It also, I think, reveals the real attitude the Church has towards the sacraments.

It's quite true that the priest or other distributor of communion has no idea of the state of the soul of someone who presents himself in the communion line. Unless it's a (very rare) case of a notorious public sinner (and even they may have gone to confession recently), the distributor has to assume that the person presenting himself is in the state of grace.

However, openly encouraging people who are in the state of mortal sin to receive communion is not a good idea. It only makes their situation worse (1 Corinthians 11:27). The Synod is treading on some awfully thin ice.