Arcanum (On Christian Marriage) by Pope Leo XIII - 1880
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If both parties are baptized validly I thought they were valid but illicit
> within the church its fairly low
I do not consider the Vatican 2 church to be the Catholic Church, however even accepting it as such for the sake of argument, there is a de facto divorce problem with doubtful "annulments", which have ballooned in number in the last maybe half century
However a lower divorce rate among such "Catholics" may also be due to there being the safeguards in place that there is a whole process to go through to be married as a "Catholic", and those who are unwilling to go through the trouble just wouldn't marry at all, whereas with protestants the barrier to "marriage" is probably much lower which also allows for a lower barrier for "divorce"