Well here’s the thing. The Church prior to Vatican II didn’t just focus on the divorced and remarried thing. There was a time when the Church actually acted as the Church and took all of these things extremely seriously. Now most priests are Father Feel-Goods. This is why it is extremely important for Catholics to find a good and holy CATHOLIC priest...one that will tell you the Truth and act on it no matter how much it might hurt their feeeeelings.
I’m not making any arguments about feelings, I am simply saying that this whole mortal sin, no Eucharist thing is a joke today. Unless you are in the confessional every week or two, certainly no less than once a month, doesn’t matter who you are as a Catholic, you are carrying at least one and probably far more than one Mortal Sin...
Of course, the reality is, like it or not, regular church going catholics will all be dead within the next few decades... most parishes the regulars are retirement age or better... or closing quickly in on it.
The Catholic Church in the US has some big problems to deal with, and while I understand the reasoning behind all of their Mortal Sins, but to claim that absolution is impossible for any sin is a bit much. Saul hunted down and persecuted the followers of Christ, yet God chose him to be the man who would expand the Church.. there would be no modern church without him... If God forgave Saul, its hard to make arguments that God’s Grace ends if you are divorced or remarried. After all, a priest who used his position to molest and rape children can be forgiven, yet, a divorced or remarried Catholic cannot be forgiven?
Yes, I know the new testament.. and yes God hates divorce, but even Mosaic law allowed for it because God knew the hearts of man are frail and weak... so suddenly God forgot this and banned it entirely? I don’t think so.
The Church’s teachings are what they are, the Cannon is what it is, but I think it faces a very very long uphill climb in the modern world.