Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix, Arizona, has said that Pope Francis’s exhortation Amoris Laetitia preserves papal teaching that bars Communion for the remarried.
The Church has traditionally taught that the remarried cannot receive Communion unless living “as brother and sister”. The teaching, which dates back to the early Church, was affirmed by St John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Amoris Laetitia does not directly address it.
Earlier this month the bishops of the Buenos Aires region became the first to suggest that traditional teaching could be overridden.
