Non Religous Ceremonies

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Is It A **sin **for A Catholic To Attend Any Weddings Or Ceremonies That Do Not Take Place In A Church Or That Are Not Religious. For Example If 2 Non Catholic Relatives Who Do Not Believe In God Or Any Church Have A Civil Marriage On The Beach Is A Catholic Allowed To Attend?
 
Is It A **sin **for A Catholic To Attend Any Weddings Or Ceremonies That Do Not Take Place In A Church Or That Are Not Religious. For Example If 2 Non Catholic Relatives Who Do Not Believe In God Or Any Church Have A Civil Marriage On The Beach Is A Catholic Allowed To Attend?
Some would answer that attending such a wedding is the equivalent of your approval of its “Non-catholicity”. Others would say in such an example, family harmony trumps the appearance of your Catholic “approval” of such a non-Catholic event.

It would be a sin, methinks, if it caused someone to question or abandon their Catholic faith based on your “example” of attending. If it wouldn’t cause such problems, methinks it wouldn’t and would be better to attend in terms of family harmony.
 
Just to satisfy my own curiosity, and absolutely** not **intending to make any criticism whatsoever. . .Hernandez, why in your post do you capitalize every letter of every word (almost; obviously you ‘unlocked the cap’ for the word sin to ‘highlight’ it and for the word ‘for’ as well, probably along with ‘sin’ because ‘sin’ is a short word?) I personally find it very hard to read posts like that because my brain tends to see a ‘capitalized’ word as the ‘start’ to a sentence or as part of a proper noun; seeing a whole slew of words including ones like ‘a, the, it’ etc. capitalized is very jarring to me. So I just wondered why some posters do this, whether it is a cultural thing, or what. As I said, no criticism, just a personal ‘take’ (after all, I put ‘brackets’ around words a lot, and that might look strange to other posters too).
 
Is It A **sin **for A Catholic To Attend Any Weddings Or Ceremonies That Do Not Take Place In A Church Or That Are Not Religious. For Example If 2 Non Catholic Relatives Who Do Not Believe In God Or Any Church Have A Civil Marriage On The Beach Is A Catholic Allowed To Attend?
Non-Catholics are not bound by Catholic marriage laws. Therefore if they get married on a beach or in a park it’s considered a valid marriage (assuming both are free to marry in the first place). It seems like something to celebrate.
 
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