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jj2011
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Before Vatican II, if you had to you could go to a non-Catholic wedding or funeral and it was considered “passive participation.”
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Walking_Home
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SSPX - BXVI is the pope but we won’t obey him until he agrees with us in our private interpretation of magisterial documents.
Private interpretation–or is it the need to interpret the Council in light of Tradition. I believe it was Pope Benedict XVI then Card.—who said that.
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Potato1
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I am unaware that this has ever been church teaching. Is there some proof?
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jj2011
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I think the folks who remember pre-Vatican II days will confirm this. Catholics could go to a non-Catholic wedding of their friends, for instance, but would not take part in the actual ceremony. Theologians called this “passive participation.”
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paramedicgirl
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From the book My Catholic Faith, which is a Baltimore Catechism published in 1954 by the Bishop of Krishnager:
A Catholic sins against faith by taking part in a non-Catholic worship service , because he thus professes belief in a religion he knows to be false. It is wrong to be present at Protestant or Jewish services even when we do not participate in them, because such services are intended to honour God in a manner He does not wish to be honoured in…
**When necessary, for social obligations, a Catholic may be present at a non-Catholic wedding or funeral, but he must not participate in the services. **In no case may he attend other services of non-Catholic churches, such as the installation of their ministers, sermons, etc.
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