Cohabiting couples can be enlightened to the truth and beauty of Christian marriage by Catholics who bear witness to the sacrament in their own lives, Pope Leo XIV has said.
In an address to the seminar organised by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, the American Pontiff said that many young people were “longing for authentic relationships and guides in life” and that the soaring numbers “who choose cohabitation instead of Christian marriage in reality need someone to show them in a concrete and clear way”.
He said the most effective witness Catholic couples could offer to cohabitees was “the example of their lives”.
Catholics can demonstrate “what the gift of sacramental grace is and what strength derives from it”, Pope Leo said, and be “someone to help” other young couples “understand the beauty and grandeur of the vocation to love and the service of life that God gives to married couples.”
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