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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait so if you’re unmarried but having sex, you’re not supposed to receive communion?[/quote]

It’s a matter of debate.

You’re not supposed to take communion if you have committed “grave” sin and have not confessed.  My grandmothers generation considered almost everything grave sin and so regularly went to communion on Saturday right before mass.  I had an Elderly relative who was a shut in who never left the house but wouldn’t go to communion unless she had just confessed — I guess she felt like she was sinning in thought or eating too many cookies or something?

The more modern thinking is that “grave” means stuff that’s more really bad.  So most modern Catholics don’t confess every time they have extramarital sex.  (Although I think adultery would count as grave.)

I think there’s a few answers to OP here:
1) some people just don’t care and will take communion regardless.  Look at all the mobsters in movies taking communion! 
2) some people are divorced but not remarried so that’s fine under the rules
3) some people did get annulments.  My SIL got one (and it wasn’t expensive despite PP) — her first husband told her they couldn’t have kids because she’d get fat, and then he eventually took off for a pack of cigs and never came back.  Both were grounds for anulment.  It took about a year.
4) some people have been told by a priest it’s okay and don’t worry about it.  I have a very religious brother in this camp.  His first wife had an affair and left him.  He could have gotten an anulment probably but didn’t actually do it.  His priest told him not to worry about it and his second marriage was actually in the church performed by that priest.  
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