Church Blasts Premarital Sex Proposal - Newsday.com

An interesting article about a family center at a Jesuit University that says the church should approve of couples living together that are engaged to be married. "'It would appear closer to the truth that they are growing, perhaps slowly but nonetheless surely, into grace,' Michael Lawler and Gail Risch wrote." As part of their justification for their position the researchers point to church history: "Lawler and Risch wrote that between the 12th and 16th centuries, the Catholic Church allowed couples to have sex once they were betrothed. That changed under the Council of Trent, but many modern Catholic couples have reverted to living together and having sex before their weddings, the authors wrote." The Diocese of Omaha does not agree and severed ties with the family center. Church Blasts Premarital Sex Proposal - Newsday.com