Priest says no to daughter see Mormon father?

[Prince_Hal]

Can any of you give me some advice regarding a personal situation.

I live in the USA and have been a Mormon for 25 years. My wife of 5 years is also Mormon and we have 2 children (2 and 3 years old) and another on the way. All very happy.

I no longer believe that the Mormon church is what it says it is, and am greatly inclined to Catholicism. My wife is a staunch Mormon.

I am divorced and my ex-wife who was Mormon has converted to Catholicism and my daughter who is 16 years old has been baptised Catholic as well. They both live in the UK. We have a good relationship.

But, my ex-wife has now told me that she does not believe that my daughter should visit us in the USA anymore, because she would be visiting a Mormon household and therefore may come under the Mormon “spirit”.

When my daughter does visit, I take her to Catholic Mass and never to the Mormon church. My wife does not read the Book of Mormon in front of her. We do not even drive her into a Mormon church carpark.

My ex-wife says that there is an evil spirit that heads the Mormon church and she cannot have my daughter exposed to it. She says that she has seen a Catholic priest and he gives the same advice. She says that I should visit my daughter by flying to England. Obviously with work I can only spend a few days a year with her and she cannot see her brother and sisters (the flights would be too expensive).

I will be buying her a ticket anyway. But can you give me your thooughts on this. Would a Catholic Priest actually confirm such an action ?

Many thanks for any help that you can give.

Glod bless - and peace be with you.

Hal.

 

[1ke]

Well, anything is possible.

You don’t know what your ex-wife told the Catholic priest that he may have agreed with. You don’t know what the priest actually said, or what your ex wife “heard” (which may be different than what he actually said).

I would suggest you stick to the legal aspects. If you are entitled to visitation, and England will enforce that agreement, then insist that she send the daughter over to the US if that is part of your divorce/custody agreement.

If you cannot get help in enforcement, you may have no choice but to go there instead. Your daughter will be 18 in two years. Then she can do as she wishes. If you don’t already have internet and a web cam on both ends, get that so that you can keep in close contact with your daughter and she can communicate with her siblings too.

All you can do is reassure her regarding taking her only to the Catholic Church and then do it.

And, of course, separate from all of this you must pursue where God is leading you.

 

[puzzleannie]

let the civil authority that governs your child custody agreement handle this one