Pope Francis said yesterday that the great majority of Catholic marriages being celebrated today are invalid because couples do not fully realize it is a lifetime commitment -- which can end only by annulment or death according to Church doctrine -- drawing sharp criticism from Church conservatives, the Religion News website reports today (June 17, 2016).
The pope was speaking at a question-and-answer session with priests, nuns, and parish workers last night in a Rome basilica.
"We are living in a provisional culture," Francis said in response to a man who spoke of "the crisis of marriage" and asked how the Church could better prepare young couples.
"Because of this, a great majority of our sacramental marriages are null because they [the couple] say 'yes, for the rest of my life' but they don't know what they are saying because they have a different culture," Francis said.
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