[napscoordinator]

Wow! I wonder if it has to do with his drinking. If they get divorced, he can’t take communion...that is tragic. I don’t believe in divorce and thnakfully neither does my wife.

[y6162]

My wife and I are on the death due us part plan.

I quit smoking, lost some weight and have been exercising more lately.

[blu]

If they get divorced, he can’t take communion.

I do believe that's incorrect. If he were to divorce and then re-marry (without getting a nod from Rome), then he would not be able to take communion. But just getting divorced is not a ban to communion.

And now i"ll go double check that...

[ravingnutter]

Rumor has it that he was "recently photographed with a woman who did not appear to be his wife in Costa Rica on March 4."

[blu]

http://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/communion_of_divorced_and_remarr.htm

Just getting divorced is not a ban on communion.

[montomike]

I think that it has a lot to do with all the beautiful women with killer bodies that want him badly and are willing to do anything to get him.

I am so glad that I am not in that predicament.

[al_c]

If they get divorced, he can’t take communion...that is tragic.

That's incorrect. Now, if he shacks up with another or gets married outside the RCC or w/o an annulment, then he should not receive the eucharist.

[Jim Noble]

If they get divorced, he can’t take communion

False.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Divorce is not recognized by the Church as a negation of your marriage vows - your promise to God - hence you may get divorced via civil law all you want, you're still married in the eyes of Jesus’ Church. You still must be chaste - no relations (emotional or physical) with another. Receiving Holy Communion continues as nothing has changed: just that the couple currently is at odds and needs individual and joint help. Praise God they get it. Marrying again wont happen except in another faith, but I digress. When one is addicted, sometimes to separate civil-ly protects assets and more significantly, helps the one sink to or reach bottom all the more sooner/more fully. Tough love. You make the promise you will split, and you go through with it - but in man eyes, not Gods.

[Aquinasfan]

If they get divorced, he can’t take communion...that is tragic.

The Church doesn't recognize civil divorces regarding sacramental Catholic marriages, so Mel would be free to take Communion, unless he remarries.

[murron]

Yes, he can take communion as long as he doesn’t remarry or commit any other sin.

[joe fonebone]

wrong.........he can take communion as long as he abstains from sex and does not remarry.........