“The real revolution there happened under John Paul II, not Francis, which hasn’t really yet been understood,” said Paglia. “You have to remember that before [Familiaris Consortio], it wasn’t that the divorced and remarried just couldn’t get Communion, it was they were practically excommunicated and expelled. They were outsiders. After John Paul, everybody was inside the house … I can’t just send them out on the terrace!” This is actually true to some extent. In JPII's Code of Canon Law (1983), there is no mention of excommunication of the divorced and remarried. However, the 1917 Code of Canon Law mentions that such couples could be excommunicated.