I will not stand in judgment against them.
Looking at the situation from a standpoint of someone completely not involved in anything related to them, I see two things.
1) He married a non-catholic, and someone who did not convert. That right there is bound to cause problems. There are already difficult things to endure as a married couple that are truly Catholic, that throwing a non-Catholic into the mix will inevitably pose a problem at one point or another, and it's just really sad that it had to come to this.
2) Mel Gibson, in his own admissions, has a drinking problem. I know from personal experience that things can become almost unbearable in that type of situation, even in a Catholic home, with one person abusing alcohol to a point they go on wild tirades, do self-destructive things, and sometimes rarely get violent, depending on the disposition of the person.
That said, from my sophomoric point of view, as a bystander, having no real knowledge of the two of them, I can see both of these things magnifying whatever problems they have, if there are more of them.
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I will pray that whatever differences they have, they can persevere in their married life, with the immense grace God gave them in the sacrament of marriage, and perhaps iron out whatever problems they have.
My heart goes out to both of them. Now, especially now, we need to be sticking together.