Cardinal: Church should scrap the phrase 'living in sin' [View all]

[UrbScotty]

A Catholic cardinal suggested Tuesday that the phrase "living in sin" for cohabiting couples should be banned, saying it alienated people from the Church.

"To label people is not helpful," the unnamed prelate was quoted as saying at a major Vatican meeting on family issues gathering some 250 bishops from around the world.

"The language has to change," he said, according to a spokesman for the extraordinary meeting known as a synod, speaking at a daily news conference on the closed-door talks.

The Church should instead encourage a "gradual" rapprochement with unmarried couples, the cardinal urged.

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