Pay For The Wedding?

[Seatuck]

This Mother should stop worrying about weddings but instead see if she can lovingly help her daughter reconnect with the church.

 

[puzzleannie]

I have a friend and we were discussing weddings. She has a daughter that is not practicing Catholic faith, and does not want to marry or have anything to do with the Church. She says she does not want to pay for the wedding unless her daughter gets married in the Catholic Church.

How do you feel about this? Wouldn’t this be wrong to force her to do this when her daughter is not interested in Catholicism? On the other hand if she pays for the wedding that is not in Catholic church what message is she sending?

I really did not know exactly how to advise her.

confusing but I assume daughter plans to marry, but not in the Church, and I further assume the daughter herself is a baptized Catholic who is obligated to follow Church law on marriage.

If the mother truly believes in her Catholic faith she will not participate much less pay for this so-called wedding.

This is not forcing her daughter to do anything, it is merely declining to cooperate with multiple sin and scandal situations.