Szentségekhez engedhető-e mindenki, aki elvált és újraházasodott? – az Amoris Laetitia szerint

All baptized person who is not forbidden by law may and must be admitted to holy communion. (can. 912) but others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to holy communion. (can. 915) The Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts in 24 June 2000, made a clarification related to can. 915. According to this text they are forbidden from receiving the Eucharist, those who are divorced and remarried. In this short article we would like to see, whether the law prohibits all divorced and remarried persons from receiving the sacraments or not? Reading the AL, it becomes clear that the apostolic exhortation is not contrary to the Church’s earlier teaching. If the Pope wanted to change the pastoral practice, he should have met two requirements: 1. he have to say it explicitly, 2. and the teaching should not to be contrary with the teaching of the church. The Church’s teaching clearly states that spouses can only have sex with their spouse, and if they deliberately and intentionally commit a deadly sin against this commandment, in order that the sin be released, they must repent. Repentance without sorrow is not repentance. The teaching of the Council of Trent clarified what he meant by this sorrow: “...the first is grief, which is the pain and hatred of the soul for the sin that they have committed, with the determination that they will not sin in the future.”