Wouldn’t that depend on why the divorce happened?
The wife could have had an abusive husband or an adulator for a husband or even one that went to the store and never came back, should that woman upon remarriage be denied?
Are divorced husbands not held to the same standards?
What if the woman was divorced and converted to Catholicism?
Should she be denied?
Sorry not getting this at all, for me communion is between you and God not you and a man.
It is between man and God. The Church simply offers Her guidance on how to receive worthily and without condemnation (again 1 Cor 11:29). There are mechanisms in the Church to ascertain what you questioned above.
God bless.
Reason #3 is moot.
I had a great aunt who had to leave her husband back in the 1950’s when he became an abusive, deadbeat drunk. She lived alone and raised her children, remaining alone and celibate until passing away in her 80’s. Remaining faithful to Church teaching. Never got a divorce but always stayed separated. I think Pope Francis is looking for a way to help people like her, who are in the position due to no fault of their own.
You posed some excellent questions. After all, if there can be exceptions to marriage that result in annulment, there should be allowances for communion. That said, anything the churches can do to strengthen marriage is all to the good of society.
Many in the church believe that communion should be witheld from those who perform or actively support abortion. Is that between them and God as well?
If the Church does move down this road then it will only be a matter of time before it recognizes civil divorce as well. Then marriage will be for Catholics what it has become for other faiths. A union between one man and one woman...for however long is convenient to them both.
The Church believes it has a responsibility to defend the indissolubility of marriage.
In cases where a marriage does break down, and there is reason for doubt about the quality of the consent that established the marriage, there is the process of annulment.
When people do not go through the process of annulment, and remarry after a divorce, defending the indissolubility of marriage means presuming the validity of the first marriage. This is why such people are not permitted to receive Communion.
“Wouldn’t that depend on why the divorce happened?”
No, because the Catholics stick closer to the Biblical definition of marriage, so they do not consider a civil divorce to end the marriage. Someone who is divorced civilly, but who cannot get their marriage annulled by the church, is still seen as married “in the eyes of God”. Therefore, if they remarry, they are committing adultery, so they cannot be in a state of grace fit to receive communion.