Does Tobit 6:16, apply to today's Catholic Christian?

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I can’t really tell what the Lord’s stand is, as concerns a choice of a spouse, i mean is " a Sound Christian faith", all there is to look out for in the other, or does race, tribe etc count as well?
 
In Tobit 6:16, Raphael refers to what the father told his son in Tobit 4:12-13, that is, to marry a Jewish girl.
 
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Thanks. I have read the Catechism’s stand on mixed marriages as regards “disparity of cult”, still to find and read on interracial marriages. Would definitely read more.
 
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Ok.Just thought, because it’s from the Bible, It should have some meaning to today’s chritian, maybe ?
 
Ok. So I sometimes wonder if today one could translate “Jewish girl” then as the “Christian girl” today, or "maybe “Chritian girl from the same origin” or “C…of the same cult” etc.
 
The Roman Catholic Church in USA has a history of supporting interracial marriage since way before the Civil Rights movement. If both persons were Catholic then the RC Church didn’t care about race or ethnicity. Many Protestant churches were a lot more concerned with race.

Edited to add, I note this refers to the official position of the Church. There were individual priests and individual Catholics who were racist. In some cases the priests would counsel against interracial marriage on the grounds that the US was a racist society and life would be too hard for the couple’s children, or similar.
 
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Ok.Just thought, because it’s from the Bible, It should have some meaning to today’s chritian, maybe ?
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Of course. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s an commandment for us. It exists as a historical event for us to recognize and, on a spiritual level, affirms religious purity. Jews who entered into marriages with gentiles became what we know today as Samaritans, who practiced a mix of Judaism and various pagan religions. The Israelites always fell away from God when they intermingled with gentiles, and Tobit wanted to spare his son from this.

And right there there’s a second message for us to take away from this- Tobit loved his son and wanted him to follow God above all, and this shows his care for him. This is something we all could learn from.
 
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