I have a niece who was married to a man in a civil wedding before he received the annulment of his previous marriage. They wanted to get married, they loved each other, they wanted children, and they had three. The judge had even awarded him custody of the children from his first marriage. This man was so religious that every Sunday, when he went to Mass, he went to the confessional and said to the priest, “I know you can’t absolve me but I have sinned by doing this and that, please give me a blessing.” This is a religiously mature man.
An example of meeting them with mercy (broadly defined) where they are.
