And the media is always fully true and correct?
If Mel is no longer living in sin, has confessed and been shriven then, like you or me or any other sinner forgiven by Our Lord, he is then again in a State of Grace.
What is the point you are so feebly trying to make?
Maybe I just remember back to the day when my own Grandmother was alive.
I visited her one summer and attended Catholic mass with her. The priest asked all to come forward and receive communion. I got up and got ready to go. My grandmother said we couldn’t. I asked her why. She stated both she and I couldn’t. I asked her why. She stated she married a non catholic as a widower and because of that her local priest denied her the right to receive communion. I asked why I couldn’t. My grandmother stated I couldn’t because I was just recently confirmed Lutheran.
That isn’t what scripture taught me and justifiably angered me.
How is Mel not living in sin? He was married to his wife for 29 years and then tried to say it was never a marriage. He had a baby with another woman to whom he was not married.
But ignore his public statements if you don’t trust them.
Look at his public behavior. Anyone who behaves as such will face an accounting that no pastor or priest can absolve.