" If,    as    a    result    of    the    process    of    discernment, undertaken  with  “humility,  discretion  and  love  for  the Church and her teaching, in a sincere search for God’s will and a desire to make a more perfect response to it”,  a  separated  or  divorced  person  who  is  living  in  a  new  relationship  manages,  with  an  informed  and  enlightened  conscience,  to  acknowledge  and  believe  that  he  or  she  are  at  peace  with  God,  he  or  she  cannot  be  precluded  from participating  in  the  sacraments  of Reconciliation and the Eucharist."

Signed by Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta and Bishop Mario Grech of Gozo, the guidelines were read aloud at Masses in both dioceses Sunday and consist of 14 bullet points priests are to use when accompanying couples in irregular situations.