[metmom]

Though I think I struck a nerve here. The squealing and outrage is because so many of the anti-Catholics left the Church over their own indiscretions. They hold a visceral hatred for the Church because it won't officially condone their serial polygamy and adulterous behavior or participate in their charade of godliness.

Divorce is a mortal sin except when it isn't.

Yeah, right.

Finessing God's laws, again.

The Catholic church makes the Pharisees look like a bunch of bush league slackers.

[caww]

So Catholics have different levels of sin? Some more acceptable than others or what?

[Natural Law]

"Finessing God's laws, again."

It beats the hell out of simply ignoring them or clinging to their perversion by some old French kook to give you a fig leaf of morality.

The Church speaks clearly on this subject:

CCC 2384 Divorce is a grave offense against the natural law. It claims to break the contract, to which the spouses freely consented, to live with each other till death. Divorce does injury to the covenant of salvation, of which sacramental marriage is the sign. Contracting a new union, even if it is recognized by civil law, adds to the gravity of the rupture: the remarried spouse is then in a situation of public and permanent adultery: