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If it does not matter that a Catholic spouse can bring his/her children in the Catholic faith - practicing and observing the faith, then Catholicism does allow mixed marriages (with dispensation).
 
Is the crucifixion on the 6th day of the week an official Catholic position?
 
In short, yes. Jesus was crucified on Friday, which is just before the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday).
 
In 1886, Pope Leo XIII added a Prayer to Saint Michael to the Leonine Prayers, which he had directed to be prayed after Low Mass two years earlier.
 
Reuben_J,
re: “In short, yes. Jesus was crucified on Friday, which is just before the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday).”

Is there an official Catholic position which accounts for the lack of a 3rd night that the Messiah said would be involved with His time in the "heart of the earth’?
 
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Is there an official Catholic position which accounts for the lack of a 3rd night that the Messiah said would be involved with His time in the "heart of the earth’?
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Not that I know of.

There is not much talk on this officially. Form the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is the official position of the Church, this subject is mentioned in the explanation of the Profession of Faith, which among others contains article 5, "HE DESCENDED INTO HELL. ON THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN"

Thus no third night is mentioned, which you rightly said.

More importantly, the Church proclaim ‘the resurrection of Jesus as the crowning truth of our faith in Christ’.

638 “We bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, this day he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus.” The Resurrection of Jesus is the crowning truth of our faith in Christ, a faith believed and lived as the central truth by the first Christian community; handed on as fundamental by Tradition; established by the documents of the New Testament; and preached as an essential part of the Paschal mystery along with the cross.

Some Catholic apologetics in explaining this, would mention the Hebrew context of saying a day as ‘a day and a night’, anything within the twenty four hour of that day, which begins at 6pm to 5.59pm next day of our time.
 
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Reuben_J,
re: “Some Catholic apologetics in explaining this, would mention the Hebrew context of saying a day as ‘a day and a night’, anything within the twenty four hour of that day, which begins at 6pm to 5.59pm next day of our time.”

But is there any Hebrew context of saying that a daytime or a night time would be involved with an event when no part of a daytime or no part of a night time could occur?
 
I am sorry I will not go into this other than saying that the official position by the Church is that Jesus rose on the third day, which is the day after tomorrow.

However, you can find lots of articles about this subject online. Admittedly some are trying to justify why it is three days and not three days and three nights. Among others, the latter expression can be seen as idiom rather than literal.
 
Reuben_J,
re: “I am sorry I will not go into this…”

OK, no problem. Perhaps someone else may know of examples.
 
Does Jesus have a burial site (and if so, where is it), or did he go right into the heavens with his body after he left this world and has no burial site?
 
Well, Christians believe Christ rose from the dead so there wouldn’t be a body. 😉
 
Young earth creationism being the idea that God directly created the universe, the earth, and all life on earth less than 10,000 years ago?

I don’t think the scientific evidence supports this at all.
 
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