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marki3083
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Is it wrong to marry a person from a different religion? 
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1ke
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It is imprudent. The Church teaches that mixed marriage is to be avoided.
If a person *insists *on it, the Church will *tolerate *it and allow it if certain criteria can be met by the Catholic-- such as providing evidence they will not be hindered from practicing their faith and a promise on the part of the Catholic to baptize and raise their children as Catholics.
If a person *insists *on it, the Church will *tolerate *it and allow it if certain criteria can be met by the Catholic-- such as providing evidence they will not be hindered from practicing their faith and a promise on the part of the Catholic to baptize and raise their children as Catholics.
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John_Lilburne
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No, it is not wrong. It is clearly permitted in the liturgical book “Rite of Marriage”. There is a whole chapter on it, chapter III, starting with:
“If marriage is celebrated between a Catholic and unbaptized person (either a catechumen or a non-Christian), the rite may be performed in the church or some other suitable place and takes the following form.”
(The Rites Volume One, Liturgical Press, 1990, ISBN: 0-8146-6015-0, page 740).
“If marriage is celebrated between a Catholic and unbaptized person (either a catechumen or a non-Christian), the rite may be performed in the church or some other suitable place and takes the following form.”
(The Rites Volume One, Liturgical Press, 1990, ISBN: 0-8146-6015-0, page 740).
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drafdog
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No, but it opens up a whole range of problems with regard values, priorities, personal relationships, etc that you would probably want to avoid. Life with a spouse and probably children is difficult enough without adding to it unnecessarily.
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JimR-OCDS
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No its not. My sister-in-law, married her husband who is not Catholic, in the Catholic Church, about 35 years ago.Is it wrong to marry a person from a different religion?
What’s important is for the non-Catholic spouse to respect and allow the Catholic to practice their faith to the fullest and of course, visa versa, allow the non-Catholic to practice their faith, and have respect for theirs.
There will be some problems, but no worse than marriages where one is a devote Catholic and the other a poor Catholic. In fact, I’ve seen the later, and its caused marriages to end.
The best situation is where you are both on the same spiritual level, with God as head of your marriage. As you both move closer to God, you move closer to each other.
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otjm
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Perhaps it would be wise if we all agreed what the term “wrong” means.
One can do things that are “wrong” but don’t have the moral implcation of sin.
One can do things that are wrong, and may result later in situations that invite one to sin (one has free will, and does not need to commit the sin).
One can do things that are wrong and are a sin.
It is not a sin to marry someone who is not of the same faith.
It is, however, imprudent to marry someone of another faithl and the degree of imprudence my grwo depending on how committed they are to that faith. A very good person, and a very strong Catholic in my parish is married to a dyed-in-the-wool Baptist. The attend Mass each Sunday, then they go to her church for service. His two daughters are not baptized (the mother would not stand for it) and he has done his best to raise them Catholic, with no outward success to this point (the older one is a freshman in college). It is a constant source of heartache to him.
I also know couples who wee in what is called a “mixed” marriage, and the non-Catholic spouse eventually becomes Catholic.
NOTE: there is absolutely no guarantee whatsoever in any way, shape or form that the person you may be considering (since that is usually the source of these questions) will ever even consider becoming Catholic. And if a person thinks they are going to accomplish that, at least in my book they may not be mature enough yet to enter into marriage.
50 years ago mixed marriages were much more infrequent than they are today. 50 years ago, about 2/3s of all Catholics attended Mass weekly, too. Now mixed marriages are much more frequent, and we have about 1/3 of Catholics attending Mass weekly. I do not say that this is the cause of the loss of so many to the faith, but it certainly has been one of the contributing causes.
One can do things that are “wrong” but don’t have the moral implcation of sin.
One can do things that are wrong, and may result later in situations that invite one to sin (one has free will, and does not need to commit the sin).
One can do things that are wrong and are a sin.
It is not a sin to marry someone who is not of the same faith.
It is, however, imprudent to marry someone of another faithl and the degree of imprudence my grwo depending on how committed they are to that faith. A very good person, and a very strong Catholic in my parish is married to a dyed-in-the-wool Baptist. The attend Mass each Sunday, then they go to her church for service. His two daughters are not baptized (the mother would not stand for it) and he has done his best to raise them Catholic, with no outward success to this point (the older one is a freshman in college). It is a constant source of heartache to him.
I also know couples who wee in what is called a “mixed” marriage, and the non-Catholic spouse eventually becomes Catholic.
NOTE: there is absolutely no guarantee whatsoever in any way, shape or form that the person you may be considering (since that is usually the source of these questions) will ever even consider becoming Catholic. And if a person thinks they are going to accomplish that, at least in my book they may not be mature enough yet to enter into marriage.
50 years ago mixed marriages were much more infrequent than they are today. 50 years ago, about 2/3s of all Catholics attended Mass weekly, too. Now mixed marriages are much more frequent, and we have about 1/3 of Catholics attending Mass weekly. I do not say that this is the cause of the loss of so many to the faith, but it certainly has been one of the contributing causes.
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