TY - JOUR N2 - The paragraphs 300-305 belong to the most controversially discussed quotations of the Pope’s Francis Exhortation Amoris laetitia. A suggestion appears in them, that people living a non-sacramental unions can find themselves subjectively unable to act differently without causing a new harm, though at the same time they are fully aware that their present living conditions are objectively a grave sin. Such people – so the Pope says – are not deprived of the divine grace and could under some circum-stances received the sacraments. These statements are interpreted in different ways. According to the first interpretation the particular circumstances can change the moral character of the person’s act so far that the life in a non-sacramental union can no more be assessed as an adultery i.e. a grave sin. The supporters of the second inter-pretation claim that the particular circumstances could cause a grave moral constraint which – like other forms of constraint too - can diminish one’s moral responsibility, though his/her act remain objectively a grave sin. Eventually according to the third interpretation the statements of Pope Francis are in the present article related to the particular category of people living in non-sacramental unions namely those ones who are subjectively convinced that their first marriage was never valid. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/103833/PDF/SNT14Machinek.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/103833 PY - 2017 IS - Tom 12 EP - 283 DO - 10.24425/119350 KW - Amoris laetitia KW - mitigating factors KW - responsibility limitation KW - sacramental marriage KW - indissolubility of marriage KW - validity of marriage A1 - Machinek MSF, Ks. prof. dr hab. Marian PB - Polskia Akademia Nauk - Komitet Nauk Teologicznych DA - 2018.03.30 T1 - The meaning of mitigating factors in the exhortation of Pope Francis "Amoris laetitia". Diversity of interpretations SP - 265 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/103833 T2 - Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN ER -