I love a Hindu girl

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Thank you. This is one of the better comments with an actual good solution.
 
I know, but she has become a part of me and she feels the same way. I always thought that I would find a nice Catholic girl. But, I could never find a Catholic girl like her.
 
She told me That she believes God is the one supreme being or whatever and that Jesus and God are one in the same.
 
Marriage age is a timeless debate. I know I wasn’t close to ready at 21.

The OP is 16. That makes him a High School Sophomore. The odds of him going out with the same girl by the time he graduates are probably 1 in 20. The odds of him being married to the same Hindu girl by the time he graduates from college are probably 1 in 100,000.

Young people should be open to learning about new things. Learning about other cultures broadens your horizons. In college, I went out with a Muslim and a Hindu. I learned a lot. My late wife was a Catholic. I grew up.

Personally, I wouldn’t be concerned about him learning about another religion, unless he started to practice it. I’d probably be more concerned if he started to learn about a protestant sect that was out in Loony Tunesville.

Above all else, the OP should discuss this with his parents. My opinions and the opinions of any other adult on this website should not be listened to. Do what your parents tell you.
 
Firstly, remember that you and her are both still really young - it’s not what you want to hear, but it’s a really important consideration. From what you’ve posted, it sounds as though you don’t know much about her faith and how it compares to yours. If you want to have any chance of marriage in the future, both of you needs to know about both faiths.

Honestly though, don’t worry too much about marriage now. Get to know yourself, your faith, and what you want to do with your life. Definitely you should talk to your parents about all of this.
 
That’s because they believe everything is one and God is everything.
 
Good, she can convert to Catholicism! Just tell her it’s the Ultimate Truth!
 
Actually they don’t have multiple God’s.

What people on the outside call multiple God’s is actually the different forms God has revealed himself to individuals.

It’s no different that when Our Blessed Mother has appeared to people, holding the baby Jesus.

Jesus is an adult, not a baby.

Jim
 
the “is Hinduism polytheistic?” question is tough. I’ve heard some Hindus say that what they mean when they say “gods” is more analogous to what we mean when we say “angels”, and that they believe there is one actual God, capital G.
 
I know what it feels like to be stuck between a rock and a hard place. This is a hard question to answer because nobody is an expert on you other than you (and God above all).
I know everyone has said this but it’s true: I think if you sat down with a good priest, he would sit with you and discuss where you are in the Catholic faith.

I will tell you this, I thought I was Catholic 20 years ago and now I am more involved and more educated in the Catholic Faith that I love it and understand it’s many rules that seem so mundane or so cold to someone who hasn’t fully embraced it. It’s not easy to love someone and feel like you can’t have them or are told that your love for them can’t develop or it would be considered sinful. I get that. If you are younger, I say give yourself time. Perhaps you are still learning what is attractive in a future wife and she is an example of what is yet to come for you. But this also depends on how into the Catholic faith you are. It’ easy to turn away from it without fully knowing it, please allow yourself that chance. I would make an appointment with a local parish and ask to talk to a priest about the faith and marriage. They will give you the time. If you never get around to that this clip might help you:

 
JimR-OCDS said:
What people on the outside call multiple God’s is actually the different forms God has revealed himself to individuals.
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Regardless, they do not worship God. They may worship a god or many gods but they do not worship the God of Abraham. Their theology is so far removed from a Christian understanding of God that it cannot be compared. It would be like saying Odin and God the Father are the same because the Norse believed they were. It’s pagan nonsense.
 
Meh…I actually ended up watching this earlier today. Some of it is OK, but as someone who has been in a “mixed” marriage for 15 years now, and together for about 20 I found some of it kind of condescending to those of us in Catholic-NC Christian marriages…IMHO.
 
Catholics aren’t supposed to marry in front of other (so-called) ministers. They should only marry in front of a catholic minister.
 
I am in a mixed marriage for 10 years. My husband is Protestant and is just now converting. He promised to raise the children Catholic, and they were baptized Roman Catholic. I didn’t know I needed permission when we first got married, neither did my parents. We are just now getting it corrected, I wish I had done it sooner at times. But I wanted the initial poster to see this to better understand what he will be dealing with, should he want to grow in the Catholic faith later. The Roman Catholics do have a different standard.
 
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I am in a mixed marriage for 10 years. My husband is Protestant and is just now converting. He promised to raise the children Catholic, and they were baptized Roman Catholic. I didn’t know I needed permission when we first got married, neither did my parents. We are just now getting it corrected, I wish I had done it sooner at times. But I wanted the initial poster to see this to better understand what he will be dealing with, should he want to grow in the Catholic faith later. The Roman Catholics do have a different standard.
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I can understand that. It was a touch frustrating that he said that the couples he talked to said that if they could do it over again they wouldn’t marry NC’s. That comes off a bit disingenuous to me, almost as though that’s what we’ll all say. My wife has been asked that question before, and her answer was and unequivocal no.

I’m the NC in our marriage. I haven’t converted and probably never will. This doesn’t bother my wife a bit and isn’t a point of contention in our marriage at all.
 
Paul14 said:
… Would we be allowed to be married into the Catholic Church and/or married in the Hindu way as well. …
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For a Catholic to marry a non-Christian requires a dispensation because it is not the best. It means that you are not equally yoked and that the marriage will not be a sacramental marriage. A sacramental marriage is only between two validly baptized Christians and brings sanctifying and sacramental grace to the properly disposed spouses.
 
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Their theology is removed from Christianity because it predates Christianity by centuries.

Whether on not God gave them a level of truth, isn’t for us to judge as being false.

After all, if God speaks to me, who are you to say He didn’t ?

Jim
 
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