I have friends at my parish, lovely couple who have both been divorced, and married (eachother) outside of the church. They attend Mass, join clubs, good members. No, they do not partake in Holy Communion but have never complained about that!
There has been no wave of popular demand from openly divorced and remarried Catholics that the requirements be waived. They know there are problems and they’re working with them and probably even benefitting as a couple from their spiritual attitude.
As for people who don’t give a darn...they’ve been going to Communion all along and don’t care, so when the Pope makes it seem as if there’s a vast group out there demanding this, he’s creating a straw man to get what he wants.
It says that he plans to publish or make a statement in March of 2016. Remember that date. Personally, I think he’s an anti-pope and I hope he doesn’t last until March, but I suspect that it’s going to take more than hope to get him out.
They likely then don't believe in the presence of Christ in your Eucharist...What Catholic could walk into a Catholic church knowing that Jesus was available to the guy next to you but not you???
I am curious tho if there would be a mass exodus if the divorced people were forbidden access to Mary...