“But don’t you get divorced, by God! You are cut off from the sacraments for life if you do...unless you pay the mordida, that is!”
That’s completely false. Being divorced does not cut you off from the sacraments. If you divorce and remarry outside of the Church, that is a different story because then you’re nothing more than shacked up in the Church’s point of view. Once again, just to make this clear: BEING DIVORCED DOES NOT CUT YOU OFF FROM THE SACRAMENTS.
http://www.catholic.com/blog/jim-blackburn/receiving-the-sacraments-after-divorce-and-remarriage
Very true. Just being married outside of the church is enough to cut you off from the sacrament. Example: If a catholic man marries a protestant woman in a protestant church without permission from a catholic priest, he should be denied the Eucharist in a catholic church.