At what point in time did the Catholic Church allow a member to marry a Jewish non member in the Church in the US?

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I’m mostly interested in the US. I would like to know what the history of this rite has been in the Catholic Church worldwide if anyone here has good information.

I’ve found out that there is a remote possibility that my birth mother was Jewish.

If she was here now, I could just ask her. However she is not anymore, so I ask you.

My priest is much more worried about my state of mind at the moment than to be bothered with this question. And thankfully so, for he has kept me sane and somewhat willing to go on each day since the terrible thing happened.
 
Maybe this is a touchy subject.

I can imagine why after realizing what has happened in my own family, and I never knew it.
 
The Catholic Church does prefer Catholics to marry Catholics. She does however permit Catholics to marry non-Catholic Christians and even non-Christians.
 
The Catholic Church does allow you to marry anyone of another faith with a few conditions. I am Catholic and at one point in time I was engaged to a women who belonged to the religion of Hinduism. They said that we were required to get something called a disposition of cult, that is basically permission to marry a non-Catholic. Also we had to agree to raise any children of ours Catholic. We decided not to get married for other reasons but thanks be to God she was baptized and became Cathoilc.
 
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The Catholic Church does allow you to marry anyone of another faith with a few conditions. I am Catholic and at one point in time I was engaged to a women who belonged to the religion of Hinduism. They said that we were required to get something called a disposition of cult, that is basically permission to marry a non-Catholic. Also we had to agree to raise any children of ours Catholic. We decided not to get married for other reasons but thanks be to God she was baptized and became Cathoilc.
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I know this can be done now.

That is not what I am asking. I want to know when the practice started.
 
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How long has the practice been in place?
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I don’t know but it has certainly become easier. My Mother tells me of relatives who were going to marry Protestants and the intense pressure placed upon them by the priest to not so marry. I don’t believe priests would do that now.
 
When you say “in the Church” do you mean in a Catholic ceremony, do you mean in the church building?

One set of my grandparents were married in a Catholic ceremony although one of them was not baptized. That was about a hundred years ago.

As late as the 1940’s, if one of the parties was non-Catholic, the wedding was held in the rectory living room, not in the church building. I’m not sure if that was universal, or if it depended on the priest. I know because when I was in first grade one of my non-Catholic teachers had me carrying notes to the priest for her to get it set up.
 
Joe_Kelley said:
When you say “in the Church” do you mean in a Catholic ceremony, do you mean in the church building?

One set of my grandparents were married in a Catholic ceremony although one of them was not baptized. That was about a hundred years ago.

As late as the 1940’s, if one of the parties was non-Catholic, the wedding was held in the rectory living room, not in the church building. I’m not sure if that was universal, or if it depended on the priest. I know because when I was in first grade one of my non-Catholic teachers had me carrying notes to the priest for her to get it set up.
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My family experience was the same, with a wedding in the 40’s of a Catholic and Lutheran in the rectory, not in the church. I am thinking this changed with Vatican II. I attended a wedding about 30 years ago of a Catholic and a Jew; a Rabbi and Catholic Priest both “officiated”. It is probably reflected in current Canon law. Perhaps one could find discussion of this in the Catholic Encyclopedia.
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My priest is much more worried about my state of mind at the moment than to be bothered with this question. And thankfully so, for he has kept me sane and somewhat willing to go on each day since the terrible thing happened.
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What is the “terrible thing” your speak of? In doing my family genealogy, I found similar evidence. It did not bother me one bit. Given the anti-semitism and forced “conversions” that occurred over the centuries, there are probably many people who have Jewish ancestors but are not aware of it. It was not something that they would have wanted to talk about.
 
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