Should I attend a Jewish & Catholic wedding

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My Catholic nephew is marrying a Jewish girl. Neither intends to convert. They will be married by a Rabbi. I have talked with him gently about the subject but to no avail.

Is it morally acceptable for me to attend the wedding ceremony?

Please respond only if you have insight on the moral teachings of the Catholic Church on this subject, since I am Catholic.
 
Yes, it is acceptable. Attending shows your friendship, not your approval of the type (or validity) of ceremony being performed.
 
You don’t always know what is going on behind the scenes and in the privacy of a relationship. One of my closest relatives married a Jewish woman in a ceremony con-celebrated by a priest and rabbi. Many of us were concerned. Years later, after the wife had converted to Catholicism and received her sacraments, we learned it was out of deference to and respect for the wife’s mother that the couple chose not to make a declaration of her leaving the Jewish faith at their wedding. I thought this showed tremendous consideration, maturity and restraint. Their marriage is solid, their kids are being raised in the Catholic faith and her very elderly mother, still alive, but living on the opposite coast, is none the wiser.
 
I am Catholic and IMO I say yes, attend. You are not accomplishing anything positive IMO by coming off judgemental and not attending. This is family and they have honored you by asking you to attend.

This is strictly my opinion.
 
1*** And the third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there. 2**** And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.***

Jesus had no problems attending a Jewish Wedding 😉 Go and enjoy it and remember that thse two are asking God’s blessing on them. It is after all the same God we call Our Father!
 
rrainman said:
My Catholic nephew is marrying a Jewish girl. Neither intends to convert. They will be married by a Rabbi. I have talked with him gently about the subject but to no avail.

Is it morally acceptable for me to attend the wedding ceremony?

Please respond only if you have insight on the moral teachings of the Catholic Church on this subject, since I am Catholic.
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The Catholic Church does not have definitive teachings on every single possible situation. There is nothing AFAIK morally wrong with attending a Jewish wedding. If you are asked to be in communion with the Jewish faith or asked to participate in something that violates Church teaching then that would be another matter. I don’t believe you will encounter any such issue at a typical Jewish wedding.

I take it that you have gently explained to your nephew that if he hasn’t received permission to get married outside of the Church that he will be living in sin and therefore unable to validly take communion?
 
Question: is he getting a dispensation for this kind of wedding?
 
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