Marrying a Non-Practicing Catholic

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I understand that Catholics are required to obtain a dispensation to marry a non-Catholic; however, are there any regulations that concern practicing Catholics who wish to marry non-practicing Catholics (who have been baptized and confirmed)? Thanks!
 
Welcome Home and God Bless you on your journey!

I’m not up on the regulations, but you are obviously serious about your faith.

Hopefully your loving witness will cause your loved one to return home as well, and then the problem is solved!

Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Ora Pro Nobis Peccatoribus!

Mark
 
Thanks! We’re still in the dating stage, but I like to think ahead. 🙂 I think he’ll come around eventually, but I thought I would check on it, just in case.
 
To marry someone hoping that they will change is a recipe for disaster. Marriage is a sacrament, it is to help you and your children get to heaven. Will marriage to this person help you and your children get to heaven?

For what reason did they stop practicing the Faith?

Before you take it to the next level, encourage them to settle those issues and reconcile with the Church.

In order for your intended to recieve Communion at your wedding Mass, they will need to be in a state of grace - having made a good Confession.
 
I only say that because we are both college students, and college students are often notorious for not attending church. I find that for many, it becomes more important after they graduate and begin to have families of their own.
 
I will also not be taking it “to the next level” for several years, as it is important that I am partway through graduate school and that he has a stable career. I certainly don’t plan to rush into things.
 
I understand that Catholics are required to obtain a dispensation to marry a non-Catholic; however, are there any regulations that concern practicing Catholics who wish to marry non-practicing Catholics (who have been baptized and confirmed)? Thanks!
Depends upon what you mean by “non-practicing.” From canon law:

Can. 1071 §1. Except in a case of necessity, a person is not to assist without the permission of the local ordinary at:

4/ a marriage of a person who has notoriously rejected the Catholic faith;

§2. The local ordinary is not to grant permission to assist at the marriage of a person who has notoriously rejected the Catholic faith unless the norms mentioned in ⇒ can. 1125 have been observed with necessary adaptation.

Can. 1125 The local ordinary can grant a permission of this kind if there is a just and reasonable cause. He is not to grant it unless the following conditions have been fulfilled:

1/ the Catholic party is to declare that he or she is prepared to remove dangers of defecting from the faith and 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;

2/ the other party is to be informed at an appropriate time about the promises which the Catholic party is to make, in such a way that it is certain that he or she is truly aware of the promise and obligation of the Catholic party;

3/ both parties are to be instructed about the purposes and essential properties of marriage which neither of the contracting parties is to exclude.
 
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