on 14 february 2017, cardinal francesco coccopalmerio, head of the pontifical council for legislative texts, which interprets church law, authored a 50-page booklet stating that chapter 8 of "amoris laetitia" allows access to the sacraments for the divorced and civilly remarried only if they recognize that their situation is sinful and desire to change it. he wrote that the intention to change, even if the couple cannot do so immediately, "is exactly the theological element that allows absolution and access to the eucharist as long as – i repeat – there is the impossibility of immediately changing the situation of sin."