Forum Newsfront
May, 1985
No More Shacking UpSt. Cloud, Minnesota--Reacting to the fact that the Catholic divorce rate parallels the national average, Bishop George H. Speltz has declared in a pastoral letter that "cohabitation is not adequate preparation for marriage" and that cohabiters will have to discontinue that practice for three months before they will be allowed to have church marriages within his 16-county diocese. While most Catholic dioceses are flexible on the subject, the bishop told a newspaper i...
