[AnAmericanMother]

If you are divorced in our church, you are barred from receiving the Sacraments until you get an annulment (i.e. a determination that the marriage was not entered into with the intent that it be an indissoluble, Christian marriage. Sort of like the "covenant marriages" that have been enacted by some jurisdictions.)

That's to avoid precisely the situation you describe.

Obviously this makes some people upset and resentful . . . but on the other hand the alternative is a devaluing of marriage.

[technochick99]

Actually, being divorced doesn't bar you from receiving Communion ( I assume you mean the Catholic Church). Only remarriage without an annulment does.