A concerned Catholic: James and I divorced 20 years ago. I stopped going to Communion because I knew that divorced people aren’t supposed to receive Communion in the Catholic Church. I more or less stopped going to Mass too. However, my neighbour has been really kind. She says, because I have never been with anyone since, there is no problem about my receiving Communion, but I probably ought to go to Confession first. Is she right? And I am not at all sure about Confession.
Chaplain: You are correct that the Catholic Church is opposed to divorce. Or, to put it more positively, the Catholic Church believes very strongly in the value of marriage, to which divorce is opposed. To quote the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1605):
