[ought-six]

The article said: "In a television interview today, Cardinal McCarrick indicated that depriving a Catholic of communion would be a last resort that he, for one, would be reluctant to take."

What a load of crap! The Church forbids me from taking communion because my wife and I were married in a civil ceremony, not in a Church ceremony. It was the first and only mariage for either of us. We have been married 21 years. But because we were not married in the Church we are considered adulterers, and thus cannot receive the Eucharistic sacrament. But Kerry can support abortion, partial birth abortion, stem cell research, euthanasia; he can take the sacraments of non-Catholic faiths, and who knows what else; and the Cardinal basically says it's okay for Kerry to receive communion? Am I missing something?

[Desdemona]

Am I missing something?

Yeah. If your marriage was your first and only, you can get married in the church. You don't need to have the big ceremony, but you can still get married in the church. I've known people who've done it. Any priest who told you otherwise is lying, as I understand it. If there were objections to the vows of the marriage covenant, THAT would be a problem.

[MudPuppy]

don't understand why you don't just have your marriage blessed. Not hard to do and would reinstate you both in full communion with the Church.
It's the difference between celebrating a "legal" marriage and a "sacramental" marriage. State laws and Church laws.
Easily rectified. Please see your priest.

[Arthur McGowan]

Your marriage situation is uncomplicated. If it's the first marriage for both of you, getting it convalidated should be a simple matter. Why don't you get it straightened out?