“We all know the type of ‘Catholics’ that get themselves into these situations.”
Ironically, many of these sorts of Catholics might have valid grounds for a declaration of nullity on the basis of lack of proper consent. Giggling post-teens in love with love and more concerned about the flowers in the church and the food at the reception may lack what is needed to form the consent required for the valid operation of the sacrament.
The scandal is that the Church allows them to marry in the Church, anyway.
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My parents are still married to each other and my husbands' parents were married to each other at the time of my FIL's death. All of my grandparents and his grandparents all remained married.
That is partially why this homosexual agenda is so troublesome. If straight people can't stay married what makes gays think they will do better? No one seemingly cares about the sacrament anymore. If you do not care about it, go to city hall.
Why get angry at the Church? They are just the facilitator of the sacrament. The marriage is between the spouses and the Triune God. If you only get married in the Church then not come around until your first kid needs Baptized and then hang around marginally going through the motions until the kid is Confirmed how can you blame the Church for your failed marriage.
My point is that a couple who are married for the right reason and in the sacrament, need to pray together and for each other and allow themselves to be nurtured by the Church and not forget the person in the middle of your sacrament Jesus Christ, who can and will carry you through problems.
This business has come about because we as a society (not every single person) are a throw away society. Everything must be easy and light and depends on how we feel about it. We throw away marriage like throwing away a can. It's systemic to where we find ourselves now in 2014. The destruction of Western Civilization.