Excommunicated??????
This is a long standing myth. Both of your relatives or relatives in law were not excommunicated. They merely cannot receive the sacraments since they married after a divorce without getting a proper annulment.
They are NOT excommunicated. All they have to do is sit down with a priest or deacon and get this process started.
Pinging some deacons and others who work with remarried Catholics.
"They merely cannot receive the sacraments since they married after a divorce without getting a proper annulment.
They are NOT excommunicated. All they have to do is sit down with a priest or deacon and get this process started."
Salvation, maybe they don't have grounds for an annulment? Most people who divorce and remarry outside the Church don't have such grounds - they simply live by the gonad rather than by the Spirit!
We can't just rattle off annulments like American women can just pop off down to the shops and murder their baby! Some things in life are just too important to be given over to the consumer mentality.
Ummmmmhhhnnn...I think that if they re-married outside the Church, they ARE excommunicated, at least latae sententiae.