No annulment = no lector?

[Zenzi]

A good friend of us… an African American, is every time at Mass… adoration… everything you can imagine. You always see him in Church, praying the Rosary, reading his Bible going 2 times to Mass each day…
He is very faith-full. He is remarried - never asked for an annulment, which he might get?
His new wife is not Catholic. He never go to Holy Communion. Some time ago he was asked to do the reading. I was astonished how good he did his job.
Now somebody else was so upset and told him he should not even go to a Catholic Church to Mass, since he is divorced, and he would be a Baby Killer, since he assumed our friend voted for …
Now the second man in command from the Diocese gave that divorced man a call and did forbid him to do the job as a lector, in any Church of the Diocese.
Is he not allowed to go to Church, or do the reading, since he is divorced, from his first wife, who is not longer Catholic any more and remarried??

 

[Fr.Charles_Grondin]

All Catholics should attend Mass every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation. There are no exceptions.

Catholics who are conscious of an unconfessed grave sin or whose lives are publicly irregular from Catholic standards should not receive communion.

Someone who is divorced and remarried without an annulment is in a publicly irregular relationship. The Church says that they should not receive communion. Nor can they act as public ministers in the Church, and thus cannot be lectors or extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion.

No one should ever presume to know who someone voted for or anything else about someone’s life that the individual has not personally said. To do so is a sinful presumption and an unChristian judgmentalism.

This man should continue to pray and attend Mass but refrain from Holy Communion. He should also attempt to straighten out his situation and apply for annulment so that he can receive communion and participate fully is parish life.