As a Liberal but rather successful member of the MSM once said, follow the money.
If divorced and re-married Catholics feel alienated from the Church, they do not show up. And if they do not show up, they do not put their envelope in the collection basket.
This has to be viewed as a way to get them to come back and start writing checks again.
For the same reason I suspect that soon we will find that married priests are no longer a problem. Priest shortage = fewer Masses = the basket not getting passed around as often.
Benedict apparently failed to sell his vision of a “smaller but more devout” Catholic Church.
For one thing they are too heavily leveraged with buildings, property, stuff.
Americans in particular think of money first, but the problem isn't money or anything to do with money.The problem is individuals egos, individuals who want to accepted be by and seen with the "right crowd". That doesn't rely on their having money at their disposal, it relies on their "fudging" the Faith to fit in with the Protestant, Protestant derived, and increasingly Godless majority so they're in sync with whatever society at large accepts.
Peer pressure and individuals seeking approval has created more junkies, whores, fallen Priests, Pastors, and Bishops, than money ever has or ever could. After that sex would be the second runner up. Money is no doubt corrosive, but it comes in third at best among the leading causes of corruption at the hands of Satan.
Well, except for a few ever smaller cults who "prove" they're among the elect by how wealthy they can become.
Benedict may not have sold his vision of a smaller but more devout church, but it may end up that way all the same.