What are ones options to avoid excommunication?

The first marriage can be annulled depending on whether you have the finances to weather the ordeal. Yes even the ear of the Pope has a price.

@stanleybmanly The person had three children with the first husband. Don’t want them to be called bastards. The kids are adults now.

If the second marriage is over because of death, go to confession. Go to communion the next day.

Has anyone other than Henry VIII actually been excommunicated over divorce?

Don’t fuck up in the first place.

It wasn’t excommunication, but I have a friend who was kicked out of Catholic school when his parents divorced. Not in the ancient past, this was in the late 1960s.

I know “ancient” is relative, you young whippersnappers

My Mom was @Darth_Algar. And it wasn’t even her divorce. When she married my dad he had been married briefly, right out of high school. 10 years later Mom got a letter from the church saying they didn’t recognize her marriage and excommunicated her. What a bunch of shit!

When I googled “Excommunication and divorce” I found this site which says:

Remarrying after a divorce without receiving a prior declaration of nullity (annulment) does damage a person’s communion with the Church, not because the Church rejects this person but because he or she has chosen a to live in a relationship that is in violation of his or her previous wedding vows.

The children of the first marriage are not affected by the excommunication. If they were baptized in the Church and have lived lives that are true to the teachings of the truth, they should be “in communion” with the Church.

There were no children from the first marriage. It didn’t even last 6 months. My father was not Catholic. Only my mother was. And she only had one marriage in her life.

^^^Wrong thread! Disregard!