Bishop Steven Lopes, head of the American ordinariate, has reaffirmed traditional Church teaching on Communion for the remarried.
A pastoral letter, sent to all 42 ordinariate parishes and communities in the US, said that divorced and civilly remarried couples could receive Communion only if they were “committed to complete continence”. A week earlier the two bishops of Malta said that remarried people might find it “impossible” to live as brother and sister, and could therefore receive Communion if they felt “at peace with God”.
