As a Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) coordinator, I am very grateful for Clifford Longley’s column on divorce (25 July). Repeatedly, people enrol on the RCIA course, follow it faithfully, growing in knowledge, love and faith in Jesus Christ and his Church, expecting to be baptised/received at Easter, and are finally rejected, because many years ago, they had been divorced, and have since remarried. The Church has decided that their first marriage, which long ago had ceased to exist, cannot be annulled. Can you imagine the distress and sadness in being rejected by the Church in this way? Why must our catechumens/candidates be rejected because they broke the rules of the Church long before they had any knowledge of the Catholic Church? Perhaps people are more important t