Pope: Cohabitation No Replacement for Marriage

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

At an open-air Mass attended by up to 400,000 pilgrims yesterday in Zegreb, Croatia, Pope Benedict XVI called upon the predominantly Catholic nation to counter the disintegration of family values and not to give in to the “secularized mentality” that living together is an acceptable replacement to marriage.

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