Matthew this is silly you are saying being a flagrant adulterer is worse if it's with a younger woman.
Yes, as a matter of fact I am.
I believe all "remarriage" and adultery are wrong.
However, it is that much more heinous when it's done with the basest of motives. There are definitely circuмstances which can add to the gravity of a crime.
Marriage is difficult; some people give up when things get tough, and they have worldly beliefs like, "We were young", "It didn't work out", "Time to move on", etc. Just for starters, most non-Catholics consider divorce to be an option in the first place. They don't believe in the permanence of marriage.
I don't agree with their thinking, but at least it's socially acceptable to modern worldlings. To prove my point, many times divorces are even "mutual" where the spouses agree it's for the best to end the marriage and for both spouses to find happiness with new partners.
What I'm saying isn't that much of a stretch. In prison, for example, the criminals there have a special disdain for child molesters. Yes they are ALL convicted felons, or they wouldn't be in prison. But among themselves, they consider child molesters to be the lowest of the low and they treat them accordingly.
Likewise, a man and a woman (usually non-Catholic) getting divorced and each getting re-married is one thing.
But the case of a man:
A) cheating on his wife and then
B) one-sided divorcing her, only to get remarried to his
C) supermodel girlfriend
D) several decades younger than himself -- that's another thing altogether.
If you can't see the difference, then I can't help you.
It adds extra malice or evils to the mix.
So you're saying a man divorcing his wife to marry Jane is the SAME as a man who divorces his wife to marry his wife's sister, or his wife's best friend?
Or how about a man who divorces his wife and spends big money on lawyers to see she gets nothing, vs. a man who divorces his wife but makes sure she's "taken care of" financially. Obviously the latter is much less evil.
I think most people can see there are many degrees of evil (even if the "least degree" is a quite woeful state of Mortal sin), even in something like divorce.
In other news, the Catholic Church doesn't teach that all mortal sins are equally evil. They all merit eternal punishment in Hell, yes, but intentionally missing Mass on Sunday requires different reparation -- and does different long-term damage to your soul -- than killing one's mother.
Perhaps the "added evils" are only accidentals, which merely ADD to the base gravity of an already serious crime. I'll give you that. But there are certainly ways of adding insult to the grave injury which is divorce.
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