Can children of Catholic-Orthodox marriages be raised in the Orthodox Church?

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Can children of a marriage between a Melkite Catholic and a Greek Orthodox Christian be raised in the Orthodox Church? If a Catholic allows this, could he still receive the Eucharist at a Catholic Church?
 
I am not sure how the Eastern Catholic Code of Canon Law deals with this. The Latin rite Canon Law says:

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P41.HTM
Can. 1125 The local ordinary can grant a permission of this kind if there is a just and reasonable cause. He is not to grant it unless the following conditions have been fulfilled:

1/ the Catholic party is to declare that he or she is prepared to remove dangers of defecting from the faith and is to make a sincere promise to do all in his or her power so that all offspring are baptized and brought up in the Catholic Church;

2/ the other party is to be informed at an appropriate time about the promises which the Catholic party is to make, in such a way that it is certain that he or she is truly aware of the promise and obligation of the Catholic party;

3/ both parties are to be instructed about the purposes and essential properties of marriage which neither of the contracting parties is to exclude.
A Catholic could thus, for serious reasons, allow his Eastern Orthodox spouse to raise the children in her Church. It is something to discuss with one’s pastor.
 
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