Vatican prepares document that will reiterate "no" to premarital cohabitation

The Vatican prepares a document preparation to marriage, which will reiterate his "no" to the premarital cohabitation, said yesterday the prelate Jean Laffitte, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the family.

The document, said Laffitte, will also provide support to families and recover the "traditional distinction" between remote, next and immediate to the marriage preparation

The first, he pointed out, concerning education to love, the second concerns specifically at the time of dating and the third is when the bride and groom want to marry.

Laffitte noted that courtship is a time "essentially different," the conjugal union, because "this time of preparation not expected to share respective stocks".

"I am personally convinced that the majority of young people understand this difference, as well as the species richness of two moments: the promise and do it", said the Secretary of the Council u000aPontifical to the family

Added that if nobody helps young people in that field, "won't them another choice that follow the behaviour of the dominant culture".

Jean Laffitte, presented in the Vatican together with the cardinal President of the Pontifical Council for the family, Ennio Antonelli, the twentieth plenary Assembly of the Congregation which is part of the 30th anniversary of the Apostolic exhortation (document) "Familiris Consorti", expressed concern about the "trivialization" of affective relations.

To this regard pointed out that currently, many times, when two young is married not it make thinking in a project of life, as many of them not distinguish well the difference between a marriage for always, i.e. until the death, and a marriage for the greater time possible.

Laffitte denounced that often the project of marriage by the Church "is not integrated into a life of active faith and therefore lack awareness of the" u000a"Holiness of Christian marriage".

That is why - he stressed - yesterday more than ever it is necessary that conjugal and family Ministry requires a "serious and thorough" preparation to marriage.

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