No, you will not be excommunicated from the Catholic Church if you divorce. Neither are you excommunicated if you marry someone else after your divorce. However, this latter marriage is not considered valid, and you may not receive communion, until the first marriage is annulled. Please contact your diocesan tribunal office and receive correct information on annulments in the Catholic Church. And no, you do not need to be rich to get an annulment, and you will not get one if you "pay the right price." That is Anti-Catholic garbage. You may have to pay some costs for services, but these are done on a sliding scale and may even be free if you cannot afford to pay. Just get the ball rolling right away! God bless you ---- Benedictine.
Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife because he was bored. But the Catholic church considered divorce a sin, so he made his own church the 'Protestants' in which divorce was allowed. He then outlawed Catholicism.
I assume that you are asking about the roman catholic church. People are excommunicated daily. Abortion for example is an automatic cause of excummunication, though it can be absolved by most priests. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunication#Roman_Catholic_Church
The Roman catholic pope excommunicated Martin Luther
Cause he could not get divorce.
Henry wanted a male heir, and Catherine had only given him a daughter.
Roman Catholic AnswerThe root cause for the Catholic Church is the love that God has for His people in sending His Son, Our Blessed Lord, to die for our sins in order to give us the chance to be reunited with God and happy with Him forever in heaven.
The Roman Catholic Church probably caused it through its opposition to Henry's wishes, and the monasteries suffered from it.
Roman Catholic AnswerNo, when the Philippine Independent Church started up at the beginning of the twentieth century, the Vatican instructed the Archbishop of the Philippines to excommunicate everyone involved. The Philippine Independent Church is just another protestant church that left the Catholic Church, although they maintain a Catholic structure, but they have rejected the Holy Father in Rome, and made common cause with the Anglicans - a protestant church that started in a similar way as the "Catholic" national Church in England.
It was seen as punishment for the Catholic Church's corruption.
Roman Catholic AnswerLuther's teachings did NOT cause a split in the Catholic Church. Luther's teachings tore many people away from the Church due to the rulers who wanted to be free of constraints they were under in the Catholic Church. When a prince apostatised from the faith, his people better go with him! Luther's teachings did spark the counter-Reformation which caused a flowering of religious vocations, new religious orders, and great fervor in the Catholic people.
You're thinking of Catherine of Aragon. But that was not the cause of the Church of England, Henry VIII formed the Church of England out of nothing (it was NOT a "split") in order to marry his second wife, Anne Boleyn, as the Church would not grant him an annulment from his marriage to Catherine.
No, not without the Catholic party receiving a dispensation to marry a non-Catholic. The standard concessions from the non-Catholic party would then also have to be confirmed and the marriage to take place in a Catholic church with a Catholic priest as witness.