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kptrs
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On the 4-5 times a year that you go to your church, do your wife and kids come with you and not go to the Catholic Church?
Do you present the kids with both faiths or do you teach them only the Catholic faith?
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Do you present the kids with both faiths or do you teach them only the Catholic faith?
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TC3033
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Sometimes they did…sometimes they didn’t. The only time we go to my church is when traveling back to my hometown.On the 4-5 times a year that you go to your church, do your wife and kids come with you and not go to the Catholic Church?
They are enrolled in Catholic RE.Do you present the kids with both faiths or do you teach them only the Catholic faith?
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kptrs
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If all of you go to the Catholic Church every weekend (either Saturday evening or Sunday during the day) then you are doing what the Church expects. If your wife and kids happen to go to your non-denominational church on a Sunday, they are still obligated to go to Mass at some point that day (or the night before on Saturday evening).Sometimes they did…sometimes they didn’t. The only time we go to my church is when traveling back to my hometown.
Then you are doing what the Church expects, as long as you are not presenting them with both faiths and allowing them to choose which they will follow.They are enrolled in Catholic RE.
Your first post was ambiguous. Thank you for clarifying.
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Arkansan
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You are obligated to raise your children Catholic.
Interreligious marriages are a bad idea, but most that do work do so because one (or both) of the parents is relatively non-devout. If you and your boyfriend are both devout, then the chances of a successful marriage are slim (that things are great currently doesn’t invalidate this, having children changes everything).
Even if your marriage were successful, your children would probably end up agnostics. Kids don’t “figure things out on their own”. If they’re told conflicting accounts by their parents, what they’ll hear is that the truth is unknowable and probably not all that important. And the conflicting accounts of the faith will be an issue no later than first communion.
Interreligious marriages are a bad idea, but most that do work do so because one (or both) of the parents is relatively non-devout. If you and your boyfriend are both devout, then the chances of a successful marriage are slim (that things are great currently doesn’t invalidate this, having children changes everything).
Even if your marriage were successful, your children would probably end up agnostics. Kids don’t “figure things out on their own”. If they’re told conflicting accounts by their parents, what they’ll hear is that the truth is unknowable and probably not all that important. And the conflicting accounts of the faith will be an issue no later than first communion.
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TC3033
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Meh…I wouldn’t talk in absolutes here. I’d give it a maybe.And the conflicting accounts of the faith will be an issue no later than first communion.
We had one go through first communion last year and have one that’s getting ready to go through now. No issues what so ever.
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