The divorce/remarriage issue is more challenging than it first appears. Our faith tells us that all can be redeemed....no matter how grievously we have sinned. Think of the Prodigal Son -- despite his grievous denial and abandonment of his father, upon repenting, the father welcomed back the lost sheep. But, how does this principle apply to a Catholic who has strayed by divorcing and then remarrying and raising a new family? In this case, a man or woman who repents and asks forgiveness for his/her failure does not really have the ability to 'undo the wrong' by abandoning the new spouse and children. Two 'wrongs' don't make a 'right'. What is the path forward to such individuals in the Church? I don't have an answer to this, and believe this is a good topic for the bishops to work through to help these lost souls find the Lord and live in his good graces.

Mrs Boris , I would like to point out that in this explanation you missed a crucial point. When you use the example of pedophilia in relationship to 'graduallity' , and rightly point out that it can not be 'gradually' explained to a pedophile that molesting children is wrong. I would say that 'graduallity' would mean to gradually explain to a child who has been molested that molesting children is wrong BEFORE the child-who might already be promiscuous because of abuse suffered develops into more promiscuity leading to becoming a pedophile/ abuser. It is very well documented that a percentage of pedophiles and all sort of abusers have suffered abuse themselves in childhood.

I understand 'graduallty' as a form of defeating implicit attitudes (plese see research on Implicit attitudes ) by priming stereoptypical exemplars (a child who has had homosexual abuse is a victim but has develop a n implicit bias about homosexuality)