Whoa Neil!
Hold your horses! that's why I said "impression of being a public sinner and receiving sacraments".
Because for those on the outside, TBH, most people - they cannot discern whether he receives the sacraments or not.
Clarification should be made since he has indulged us with details in other respects.
This is a great opportunity to explain how annulments are and how they are not a form of "catholic divorce".
Everybody around the world lauds the Philippines for being one of the last countries where divorce is illegal.
Well guess what, they found a way around it.
They call it annulment.
It's a legal procedure very similar to church annulment where the civil marriage is considered null.
I am not sure exactly what the grounds are, but the impression amongst most people is "divorce" by another name.
Then you see them marrying other people, etc.
And since these situations are not clarified, the common folk think of it as "another word for divorce" - because in their minds it achieves the same ends, separation of husband and wife, broken family, free to remarry.
An unfortunate situation that has arisen, that is not much discussed, is the fact that in those cases, upon annulment, the child is considered "illegitimate" and no longer enjoys the privileges of a "legitimate" child within civil society, especially where it pertains to inheritances.
If the couple happened to be married in Church too, they are still considered married and the child considered "legitimate".
Add on to that second marriages and second families.
Within civil society, as long as they are married, the children from the second family are considered "legitimate", but within the Catholic Church, it is the children from the second family that are "illegitimate".
So issues with receiving Sacraments for the children are brought into question because of this.
They were so much better off under Spain!
Imagine, a purely Catholic society for 400 years.