text: Did his first marriage fail, or did he and his first wife fail their marriage and covenant with God?  So now the first marriage continues to be failed by him and his first wife, and they continue to make no effort to be faithful to their vows to one another.  Good for him; you haven't told us how she has fared.
  
  So what is the take-home message to his children of this "successful" second marriage?  Keep shopping until you get it right.  And what when the spouse-shopping that his kids do results in a jilted spouse who wants to make the marriage work?
  
  He should repent for setting and maintaining a terrible example to his children and to other Catholics about the sacraments.  Oh, he doesn't care about the sacraments?  Another Protestant.  Forget God, just as long as you succeed in your own mind.