Marriage between a catholic and a non catholic

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TomH1 said:
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TC3033:
I do not recall this at all.
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From what do you not recall it?
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A promise for her to do her best to put our kids through Catholic school.
 
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She should have been requested to make that promise by the priest who prepared you for marriage. Whether she was asked to this is another matter.
 
TomH1 said:
She should have been requested to make that promise by the priest who prepared you for marriage. Whether she was asked to this is another matter.
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Nope, I don’t remember that. TBH, your post was the first I’ve ever read about a promise to put your kids through Catholic school.
 
The promise is to do all in her power to raise any children in the Catholic faith. Sending them to Catholic school is not a necessary part of that, and is not part of the promise.
 
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Nope, I don’t remember that. TBH, your post was the first I’ve ever read about a promise to put your kids through Catholic school.
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whatistrue said:
The promise is to do all in her power to raise any children in the Catholic faith. Sending them to Catholic school is not a necessary part of that, and is not part of the promise.
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I did not say that the Catholic had to do his/her best to ensure children went to a Catholic school. I said, … receive a Catholic education = be raised in (i.e. taught) the Catholic Faith.
 
But those are not actually synonymous. Even if technically a Catholic education could be stretched to include being raised in the faith, it is more normally used to mean enrollment in a Catholic school. And the terminology in the relevant Canon (1125 section 1) is “…to make a sincere promise to do all in his or her power so that all offspring are baptized and brought up in the Catholic Church” (emphasis mine).
 
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I did not say that the Catholic had to do his/her best to ensure children went to a Catholic school. I said, … receive a Catholic education = be raised in (i.e. taught) the Catholic Faith.
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OK…now that makes sense. Saying a “Catholic Education” sounds like going to a Catholic school. At least it does where I’m at. The normal “catch phrase” at the Catholic schools around here revolves around providing a "Catholic education.

I wanted the OP to know there is no requirement/promise they need to make about sending kids to a Catholic school.
 
Then I think we shall have to agree to disagree. Education most certainly does not require anybody to be registered as a student of an educational establishment. I believe the words of the pertinent canon, brought up in, means to be taught, i.e. educated in, the Catholic Faith.
 
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OK…now that makes sense. Saying a “Catholic Education” sounds like going to a Catholic school. At least it does where I’m at. The normal “catch phrase” at the Catholic schools around here revolves around providing a "Catholic education.

I wanted the OP to know there is no requirement/promise they need to make about sending kids to a Catholic school.
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Yes, but education has a wider meaning than formal education is a school, college or university.
 
TomH1 said:
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TC3033:
OK…now that makes sense. Saying a “Catholic Education” sounds like going to a Catholic school. At least it does where I’m at. The normal “catch phrase” at the Catholic schools around here revolves around providing a "Catholic education.

I wanted the OP to know there is no requirement/promise they need to make about sending kids to a Catholic school.
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Yes, but education has a wider meaning than formal education is a school, college or university.
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I’m not going to disagree, but the wording was confusing. I wasn’t sure what you meant, as I stated the common use for the phrase.

Clearing it up for the OP.
 
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