The debate over Communion for the remarried has intensified, after the Vatican’s doctrinal chief and the Council of German bishops made diametrically opposite statements.
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was asked by the Italian magazine Il Timone whether the traditional teaching, reaffirmed by Pope St John Paul II’s Familiaris Consortio, is still valid.
St John Paul said that the divorced and remarried cannot take Communion, except possibly when they try to live “in complete continence”.
