Speaking about the administration of the Eucharist to remarried divorcees, the Archbishop says: " Those who advance this hypothesis, at least up until now, have not yet answered a simple question: what happens to the first ratified and consummated marriage? If the Church admits them to the Eucharist, She must pronounce a judgment on the legitimacy of the second marriage. That’s logical. But—he asked—what happens to the first marriage? The second marriage, as it is called, cannot be a true second marriage because bigamy is contrary to Christ’s teaching. So, is the first marriage dissolved? Yet, the popes have always taught that the Pope has no authority over this. The Pope has no power over a valid and consummated marriage. […] So, the question is simple: what happens to the first marriage? No one has answered that question. In 2000, in his address to the Roman Rota, John Paul II said: ‘It seems quite clear that the non-extension of the Roman Pontiff's power to ratified and consummated sacramental marriages is taught by the Church's Magisterium as a doctrine to be held definitively, even if it has not been solemnly declared by a defining act.’ This is a technical expression: “a doctrine to be held definitively” means that, on this point, further discussion among the theologians and doubts among the faithful are no longer permitted."

About With respect to the expectations for the Synod on the subject, the cardinal explained that "75 percent of most African countries are against admitting remarried divorcees to the Eucharist. I repeat again: What expectations we talking about? Those of the West? Must the Church therefore preach in accordance with the fundamental paradigm of the West? Are we still at that point? Let's go and listen a bit to the poor too. When people affirm or take a particular direction, I am left very puzzled and wonder if it would not have been better not to convoke the Synod. Which direction should be taken? The direction that, as some say, has been indicated by the communities of Central Europe? And why not the direction pointed out by the African communities?".