Upholding Church’s teachings on divorce (5)

With the introduction of divorce legislation, are Catholics who obtain a divorce permitted to remarry in the Catholic Church?

There are some who argue that persons who have money to spare may go abroad and obtain a divorce which is subsequently considered legal in Malta, and so this is discriminatory, because it is unfair that only those who can afford it may go abroad and obtain a divorce and then get married in the Catholic Church.

However, only the state grants divorce. This is never done by the Catholic Church. So a Catholic who is granted a divorce will still be considered as married by the Catholic Church.

Notwithstanding that the state grants a divorce, or registers a divorce which has been granted abroad by another state, Catholics who obtain a divorce still cannot remarry in the Catholic Church. In fact, divorced Catholics who remarry are considered by the Catholic Church as living in an adulterous relationship.