Eastern Catholic conversion.

[Vico]

If we are claiming to be one church, it shouldn’t make a difference.

No Catholic is a member at large of the universal Church. One has to be a member of a ritual Church. This is an ancient principle and practice, that one is baptised into a Church through the ritual of that Church. The ritual is to be used of the Church one is to be ascribed to, for adults, and for infants, from the parent, parents, or guardian, per the canons.

It does make a difference because the ritual traditions are a valuable heritage to be preserved, and that includes the Latin Church (one is not better than another).

 

[JJRfan]

Care to clarify?

I believe we are obliged to marry within the church in which we are canonically enrolled. For example, I am a Latin Catholic. I may have spent the last ten years worshipping at a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. If I were to marry, I believe I would need to marry according to the norms of the Latin Church. If the situation was reversed then I’d have to marry in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

As I think about this, I believe too that it concerns baptism: if I have my children baptised in the local Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church I might attend they would be canonically Latin like me.

 

[MrPip]

I believe we are obliged to marry within the church in which we are canonically enrolled. For example, I am a Latin Catholic. I may have spent the last ten years worshipping at a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. If I were to marry, I believe I would need to marry according to the norms of the Latin Church. If the situation was reversed then I’d have to marry in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

As I think about this, I believe too that it concerns baptism: if I have my children baptised in the local Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church I might attend they would be canonically Latin like me.

What happens when two people want to marry and one is Latin Catholic and the other Eastern Catholic?

 

[ByzCathCantor]

It really sounds to me like everybody should become a Byzantine Catholic

There are plenty of good Byzantine Catholic churches in Florida, if you are interested!

 

[ByzCathCantor]

What happens when two people want to marry and one is Latin Catholic and the other Eastern Catholic?

Like my mom and dad!

The simple answer is the marriage has to meet the canonical requirements of both the bride and groom. This is a common situtation.

BTW - there is an entire recent thread on this subject, so I’d advise you take a look at that for details, if interested.

 

[MrPip]

Like my mom and dad!

The simple answer is the marriage has to meet the canonical requirements of both the bride and groom. This is a common situtation.

BTW - there is an entire recent thread on this subject, so I’d advise you take a look at that for details, if interested.

Thanks–I’ll check it out.

My wife’s parents were also “mixed”–he was Latin Catholic, she Byzantine-Ruthenian. They married in a Latin Catholic church, my wife was baptized/chrismated, etc. in the Byzantine Catholic church, and she ended up in the (Latin) Catholic school system for 12 years-- fierce nuns rapping knuckles with rulers and all .

 

[JJRfan]

What happens when two people want to marry and one is Latin Catholic and the other Eastern Catholic?

I was mainly thinking about those who are canonical members of one church but who choose to worship in another. I was saying that there are circumstances where things should be done in our canonical church and not another one.

I’m afraid that I don’t know the Eastern norms. If at least one is a Latin then the marriage could validly be in the Latin Church. When such marriages take place the praxis of the Eastern Catholic is taken into account. That means the minister who assists would be a priest (bishop or presbyter). In the Latin Church deacons and, in some circumstances, lay persons can assist at marriage. If the other party is an Eastern Catholic the requirements for validity of Eastern Catholic marriage are met: deacons and lay persons don’t assist.

Alternatively, I believe the marriage could take place in the church of the Eastern Catholic. I believe to follow Latin norms, the proper local ordinary or proper priest of the Latin would need to officially delegate the Eastern priest to celebrate the marriage.