Although the Vatican has not yet confirmed if the pope will attend next year’s World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, speculation was heightened this week when Vatican officials arrived to check out the city in advance of what could be the pope’s first visit to the U.S. – a visit that will focus on the very thing the “thought police” forbid us to talk openly about – the traditional family.
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Cohabitation Leaves the Heart Unsatisfied
Bishop Jean Laffitte, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family of the John Paul II Pontifical Institute, says couples who cohabit before marriage miss the profound meaning of the engagement period and enter into an arrangement that is more unfavorable to women than to men.
