ARCHBISHOP ALEXANDER SAMPLE’S AMORIS LAETITIA GUIDLINES HAVE BEEN RELEASED

Winchester, VA – LifeSite News reports that Archbishop Alexander Sample of the Diocese of Portland, Oregon has released his guidelines for the implementation of Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia in his diocese. In his guidelines, he states that Catholics who live in “serious sin,” especially those in active homosexual relationships and those who are divorced and remarried, but are not living as brother and sister, need to “sacramentally confess all serious sins with a firm purpose to change, before receiving the Holy Eucharist.” Those engaging in open homosexual lifestyles, may not hold positions of responsibility at any parish until they have proven to be living within the Church’s moral teachings. Archbishop Sample also clarifies the role of an individual’s conscience saying, “Catholic teaching makes clear that the subjective conscience of the individual can never be set against the objective moral truth, as if conscience and truth were two competing principles for moral decision-making.”