Laura, Cradle Catholic, still practicing. I believe Mr. Martin's response is essentially correct regarding the non-recognition of the second marriage, the requirement that she continue to attend Mass, as well as the official reaction to the suicide. However, there would have been no prohibition to the baptism of any children born to that second marriage. The "sins" of the parents are not visited upon the heads of the children in Catholic moral theology. However, I believe that if the mother did approach a priest about having her children baptized, the priest would have insisted up and expected practicing Catholics to act as godparents to help insure that the children would grow up in the Catholic faith. I had a similar situation in my family. The children of the second, non-recognized marriage were baptized, raised as Catholics, and were married and buried in the Catholic faith, as were the children of the first marriage, as were children of an earlier totally non-Catholic marriage by one of the partners. Patrick J. McCann, Jr. Dallas, TX Crescit Sub Pondere Virtus