The Holy Father appointed a group of theologians and lawyers on Saturday to help Catholics separate more easily.
There is an ongoing battle on the issue at the Vatican between liberals and conservatives.
Currently, Catholics can ask for an annulment of their marriage in the eyes of the Church if they can prove that it was never valid in the first place.
If they opt for a civil divorce and remarry, they can be seen to be living in sin and refused Holy Communion.
Francis ordered the procedure to be simplified, "making it more streamlined, while safeguarding the principle of the indissolubility of marriage".
Pope Francis has not openly agreed with either side of the debate on divorced Catholics, but he did warn last week against "codifying faith in rules and instructions as did the scribes, the Pharisees and the doctors of law in the time of Jesus".