He doesn’t/ He avoids as much as possible and confesses those that he cannot. First off I would say don’t get married outside of the faith or while in a state of mortal sin. Make sure that you have an annulment if you divorce and plan to re marry and make sure your partner is in the same situation. It makes things much easier
I always feel bad for people when I hear stories like this. Do you think for a second that Jesus would reject a confession of sin?
By all means…you might want to take a look at John Chapter 20 verses 22 and 23.
**Mark 2:7 says, “…Who can forgive sins but God only?” **The answer is no one, so it can’t be teaching that. You say, “Well, what is Jesus saying?” He is obviously saying that you have the right to say someone’s sins are forgiven and someone else’s are not forgiven. You say, “Can I go up to somebody and say,
Your sins are forgiven'?" Absolutely, as a believer. You say, "Can I go up to somebody and say, Sorry, your sins are not forgiven’?” Yes, you can. You say, “How can I ever do that?” To any man who is conscious of his sin, and who repents toward God and believes in the Lord Jesus Christ, you can say to that man, “Your sins are forgiven.” To any man who willfully rejects and does not believe, and refuses Christ, you can say, “Your sins are retained.” You and I have the right to tell a man whether or not God has forgiven his sins based on what he has done with Jesus Christ.That power is the Sacrament of Reconcillation.
Ahh but he didn’t do his job well, in my opinion
I am in the camp of thinkers that believe it’s always best to use the gifts of the Holy Spirit when counseling someone in error. The more flys with honey approach. 
and no, I don’t mean not correcting the error, just the approach. If a priest is terse with me in a situation that doesn’t or shouldn’t warrant it then I would seek out a different priest. The OP has been away from the Church for many years, she doesn’t know the faith that well. She needs to find someone that isn’t going to knock her over the head 
and no, I’m not in the camp of thinkers that the thinks our faith is…well “just mean sometimes and that’s just the way is” or “our faith is NOT always easy, deal with it” naww, I don’t agree with that because it gives people an excuse to be nasty.One of the requirements for receiving absolution is “a firm purpose of amendment” - which means that the penitent has a firm intention of never again commiting the sins confessed. Now, someone in an invalid marriage clearly needs to make some arrangements for avoiding sins against the 6th Commandment - either fornication or adultery.
Where does it say that?
Those two statements don’t go together. If he “completely accepted” your confession, he wouldn’t tell you not to receive communion.
The priest on behalf of Christ did not Sacramentally accept your confession. If what I am understanding here is you are explaining a counseling session and not a Sacrament. One is either absolved of their sins or not during confession.A person cannot recieve communion because of the guilt of Mortal SIn. Being guilty of one Mortal Sin is no different than being guilty of 1000 Mortal sins. If you cannot recieve the Eucharist then you did not recieve absolution which means it wasnt confession. If it was a highly respected confessor then you misunderstood him and need to take a basic Catechism to have some understanding of the Sacraments especially the Sacraments of Reconciliation and matrimony.
I’m sorry, but I’m very confused by your post. How do you come to this conclusion that my sins were not absolved? I confessed all my sins, the priest gave me absolution, but told me that I would have to have my marriage convalidated. Here is a link to a question to the apologist regarding receiving communion before convalidation, and Fr. Serpa says that if the couple live as brother and sister, they are allowed to receive communion. So it would seem that just as their sins were absolved in confession, so were mine.
If your sins were absolved then it is impossible to be told not to recieve communion. You said the priest told you not to recieve communion. THE ONLY REASON priest would tell an able bodied Catholic to not recieve a validly consecreated host is becuase they are in a persistant state of Mortal SIn.
Other than that??? LIke I said a priest cannot sort of or kinda in part or 1/2 accept in the confessional it is HE EITHER ABSOLVED YOU OR HE DIDNT
We did live as brother and sister until our convalidation. I’m really wondering why everyone is so quick to say my sins weren’t absolved? I was truly sorry and willing to do whatever was necessary. When we were married outside the church, I was a fallen away Catholic. I confessed my sins, the priest forgave me and later we made plans for the convalidation. What more could I do? Christ didn’t say you have to be perfectly right before God before you can be forgiven. He said you have to be truly sorry, and trust me, I was. Am I in a state of mortal sin because the priest couldn’t instantly convalidate our marriage? For convalidation, one of the things that is required is to get a new baptismal certificate and fill out other paper work, and then the priest needs to schedule you in. If I were to die before that could happen, even though I was truly sorry for my sin, would I go to hell because I hadn’t had a chance to formally convalidate my marriage?
OK great then WHY COULDNT YOU RECIEVE COMMUNION?
Very well put Mary. I agree 100%! I’ll say it again. This priest didn’t handle the situation very well at all. It was wrong headed. I question the person being “outside of the sacrament” it doesn’t make sense to me at all. What if someone was confessing on their dieing bed and the priest realized their marriage wasn’t valid. Would the priest stop and say oh sorry your dieing, but your outside the sacrament.
and please no one answer that by saying “some of our rules are not always easy” 
Well now if you want to be hypothetical…since the priest informed her to not recieve communion do you think you death bed priest would do the SAME? Do you really think a priest would tell a person dying not to recieve communion similar to what Brooklyn said her confessor told her??? hmmmm???Please inform me of a circumstance when a priest would tell a penitent to refrain from communion outside of the reason of MORTAL SIN! ? (communion meaning an able Catholic in a state of grace recieving a validy consecrated host) .
I don’t know why my priest told me not to receive communion. I do know that Fr. Serpa said that if we live as brother and sister, we can receive communion.
I am not condemning you …LOOK thousands…if not millions of people read this forum. this is about spreading the truth…your original post made it seem like a priest told you that he absolved you of your sins and then told you not to recieve communion…THAT IS AN IMPOSSIBILITY… simple understanding of the state of grace (grade school catechsim) would lead a penitent to KNOW that if a priest says not to recieve communion…it means YOU ARE NOT ABSOVED of you sins. HOW ELSE CAN IT BE???