Non catholic wedding reception

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I have nephew who is catholic and marrying a non catholic and they are having a destination wedding (beach). I don’t expect there was any permissions from bishop. I won’t be going to the wedding or reception. However they will have a party for extended family upon their return. Can I attend this?
 
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Well you really could check (discreetly) because there are a couple of dioceses where the bishops HAVE given a carte blanche type of permission for outdoor weddings, and it IS possible your nephew did check it out. As far as the later party, are you close to your nephew and his family? If so, attending the party ‘as a member of the family’ and extending loving best wishes in your life kind of response would leave the door open to further communication. But if you’re not that close and you or other family members are likely to get into a shouting match or grumblefest, where onlookers are likely to think, “Sheesh, if that’s Christian behavior, I want no part of it”. . .probably not a good idea.
 
I accept invitations to dinner parties hosted by sinners, Jesus ate and drank with tax collectors and prostitutes.
 
Absolutely you should attend. If you don’t, then you set yourself up for never attending any family events where he and his wife are in attendance. It kind of puts the question in a different perspective. You don’t cut someone out of your family because they marry a non-catholic.
 
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I have nephew who is catholic and marrying a non catholic and they are having a destination wedding (beach). I don’t expect there was any permissions from bishop. I won’t be going to the wedding or reception. However they will have a party for extended family upon their return. Can I attend this?
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First, is this a same-sex couple or a male-female couple?

In the past, the old Baltimore Catechism print edition stated that if a Catholic were married by a protestant minister, not only should we not attend the ceremony, we also should not give gifts. Now, there are some that think “But Vatican 2 changed everything!” (it did not, the sun still rises in the east both before and after Vatican 2, and Vatican 2 was not the cause of the NHL’s hybrid icing rule).

As others have stated, get the counsel of a priest (in fact, multiple priests). However, if you still feel uncomfortable about this, maybe you could find a scheduling conflict to come up. Perhaps you can give your cat an enema that day?
 
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