...Under the name Xavier Rynne there is an excellent daily letter from the Synod. Analytical, well-informed.
Don't get panicky about the Synod. Keep the Synod Fathers in your prayers. LETTER NUMBER 16 here...
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Then truth is that in the West the line between cohabitation and marriage has been blurred. The newspapers were full recently with a trashy social media story about a young man caught on camera "cheating" on his girlfriend by kissing another woman at a nightclub. But he wasn't married. He's fully entitled to kiss an unmarried woman, under the moral law. Unless there's an agreement that declaring yourself boyfriend and girlfriend is betrothal. We don't have such an understanding, it's all murky.
So the current situation is that the Church sees cohabitation as carrying no weight. Even if the couple have children, they can freely dissolve the relationship at will. Then if they get married, theoretically the heavy guns come out. In reality, grounds are often found to declare the marriage invalid, on some technicality or other. But if such grounds aren't found, or aren't requested, theoretically the spouse is supposed to try to repair the relationship. But an exception is made for "grave reasons". In practice, every divorced person has "grave reasons". Unless they were divorced against their will. In which case, the civil law sides with the divorcing spouse, even to the point of allowing them to declare attempts at reconciliation "harassment" and criminalising them. What does the Church do? Offers zero help and implicitly sides with the civil law.
It's a mess. it's got to change. But not at the price of forcing children of divorced couples to celebrate the remarriage of their parents ad declare it to be a good and wholesome thing, delightful in God's sight, and them as ungrateful brats because they dislike it.
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