E
erich.k
Guest
Hi folks.
About 10 years ago, I started going to a Sedevacantist sectarian parish. This was my first exposure to Catholicism, and I was eventually sucked up into their ideology and dogma. I was re-baptized (original baptism was Lutheran at infancy), took Communion, went to confession, etc. A few years later, I moved away and ultimately stopped going and stopped worrying about church. I lived a pretty worldly life, met a girl, got married, etc. The marriage was done at the venue, non-religious. This year I moved back to the area where the parish was and began attending again, and after doing some research of my own, I realized I had been severely duped.
I reached out to a FSSP priest nearby, began attending Mass, and had a meeting with him. He balked at me having been baptized a second time, and expressed concern regarding my wife, who has never been baptized, and that we were married despite me being more or less a heretical Catholic.
He now has to confirm with the Diocese whether or not I was considered a Catholic at the time the marriage took place, in which case if they consider I was not, I can continue on joining the Church properly. Otherwise, things will “become more complicated.”
Despite my best efforts, my wife is quite stubbornly nonreligious and mostly atheist. She doesn’t understand any of what I explained to her about my meeting with the priest, or Catholic doctrine, and sees me as just going through a “religion-hopping” phase.
Am I at potential risk of being forever barred from entering the Church? Does anyone have any similar experiences to share? What is the worst case outcome of my situation, and how can I explain to my wife how serious marriage is in Catholic doctrine and why Baptized couples make it just as serious?
About 10 years ago, I started going to a Sedevacantist sectarian parish. This was my first exposure to Catholicism, and I was eventually sucked up into their ideology and dogma. I was re-baptized (original baptism was Lutheran at infancy), took Communion, went to confession, etc. A few years later, I moved away and ultimately stopped going and stopped worrying about church. I lived a pretty worldly life, met a girl, got married, etc. The marriage was done at the venue, non-religious. This year I moved back to the area where the parish was and began attending again, and after doing some research of my own, I realized I had been severely duped.
I reached out to a FSSP priest nearby, began attending Mass, and had a meeting with him. He balked at me having been baptized a second time, and expressed concern regarding my wife, who has never been baptized, and that we were married despite me being more or less a heretical Catholic.
He now has to confirm with the Diocese whether or not I was considered a Catholic at the time the marriage took place, in which case if they consider I was not, I can continue on joining the Church properly. Otherwise, things will “become more complicated.”
Despite my best efforts, my wife is quite stubbornly nonreligious and mostly atheist. She doesn’t understand any of what I explained to her about my meeting with the priest, or Catholic doctrine, and sees me as just going through a “religion-hopping” phase.
Am I at potential risk of being forever barred from entering the Church? Does anyone have any similar experiences to share? What is the worst case outcome of my situation, and how can I explain to my wife how serious marriage is in Catholic doctrine and why Baptized couples make it just as serious?
Last edited:
