Catholic Wedding: Between Catholic and a Hindu

[porthos11]

In my post - I explicit called out this hate is not from all Catholics. I have met plenty of Catholics who truly exercise the teaching of the Catholic church. I have also met plenty of Catholics that do not show the same amount of love.

I seen your responses to my thread. You are very militant in your belief. There is nothing wrong with that and I respect your deviation to your faith, but people like you drive many people away from the catholic church.

I fell in love with kind, good natured, amazing hindu women. People like you, and others will denounce this love because she is not catholic. I will never accept that.

If you left Christ’s Church because of people like me or anyone else, you’ve unfortunately done so for the wrong reason.

You don’t leave the Church because its members are sinners. That’s who the Church is for. You stay in the Church because of its Founder - Jesus Christ. You left the Body of Christ for a petty reason.

No one here has disparaged your girlfriend or the fact that she’s Hindu. If anything, this is more about you than it is about her.

 

[VanitasVanitatum]

However, “fall in love” by today’s definition is purely an emotional thing, something that is never a good idea to base a decision solely on. Catholics are held to a higher standard, to temper our emotions with reason.

My post was just a comment on how little the Catholic faith plays in people’s decision-making. For Catholics, the faith ought to be a core value that requires compatibility, especially since there is a serious obligation to raise the children in the faith.

Yes, it is permitted, and yes, sometimes it works. But in most cases, the family is not Christian in character, and the children likely will not have any religion at all.

Chances are that the OP doesn’t have that type of mindset when it comes to the Church so it’s not likely to change any minds.

 

[BornInMarch]

For Catholics, the faith ought to be a core value that requires compatibility

I have to disagree here.

Suppose a man meets a woman and develops a deep affection for her, realizing that they have a lot in common, that she is has a lot of admirable personality traits, that she feels the same way about him. According to your advice, if the woman is a Greek Orthodox or an Anglican then the man should break off the engagement regarding all the evidence that the marriage between the two of them would be a successful one.

Faith is important, but if the non-Catholic spouse agrees to let their children be raised in the Catholic Faith then it seems to be no issue. And that’s assuming the couple will have children, it could very well be that they can’t (such due to infertility or the woman being past childbearing age).

As a final note, an interfaith marriage can result in one of the partners converting. There are examples of people who convert to Catholicism because they saw an example in their spouse, for instance.

 

[Patri]

I fell in love with kind, good natured, amazing hindu women. People like you, and others will denounce this love because she is not catholic. I will never accept that.

I think what people try to warn you about are the difficulties you might encounter and because we work for our salvation and that of our families, it is something very serious to consider. Not because this lady is not a good person, good for you or can’t be saved. Nobody knows that but in a Catholic forum a good number of people would not risk it. Which does not mean that an open minded non-catholic would not make a good spouse. There are positive and negative testimonies to both situations. I guess as you grown in faith and understand the importance of the sacraments, it is natural to want to share it with a spouse and live it to the fullest.