text: That is what conservative Catholics believe.  They believe it is somehow a prize that they deserve and that they get to use to exclude others from the Catholic Church.  And I am sure that at least some remarried Catholics would be willing to enter some sort of penitential path as long as the end result was access to the Sacraments without the "brother and sister" ridiculousness.  The issue is being told that you are denied Communion permanently but you can substitute it with "Communion with the poors," which is nonsense.  There is no reason to remain Catholic if you are permanently banned from the Sacraments.  As I pointed out, people can do good work and pray over at a myriad of Protestant churches and they will be full members of the community permitted to receive the Sacraments rather than pyrriahs permanently banned from the Church's Sacramental life and treated like second class citizens.