Availability of the Holy Communion to People Living in the So-Called Irregular Situations

Abstract

This article offers a broad analysis on the theme pastoral care of Church members who got divorced and entered into new unions, or their situation is “irregular” in some way. The 2014 and 2015 Synods on the Family considered the possibility of granting the divorced and remarried access to the sacraments of penance and the Eucharist. Most bishops insisted on maintaining the present discipline because of the constitutive relationship between participation in the Eucharist and communion with the Church as well as her teaching on the indissolubility of marriage.

Keywords

• Eucharystia
• nieregularne związki
• rozwiedziony
• sakrament pokuty
• sakrament małżeństwa