What's your view on this Catholic woman converting to a Islam after marrying cricketer husband

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Werbenjagermanjensen said:
My view is that it was a traitorous thing for her to do and I hope that she has a good support network if she ever decides to return to her faith.
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Do you imagine that good Christians would not support her, if she decides to return. I certainly hope we are not that un-Christian and petty.
 
22 and 30 doesn’t strike me as odd. I’m 26 and seeing a 19 year old. Once your an adult who cares.
 
Rozellelily said:
Interesting about the age of most conversions as well that’s clearly an age before people have had much life experience.
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It’s the age when people ask questions. In a lot of these videos (almost all are by women), they say they went to a priest or a teacher and asked questions about the divinity of Jesus or the Trinity (the main points of attack for Muslim propaganda), and they were brushed off. No one took the time to actually answer their questions. And clearly their Catholic education didn’t supply the answers either. So the local Imam was only too glad to help…
 
My favorite Muslim athlete? Liverpool’s Mo Salah!

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4 goals vs Watford last Saturday

Best Catholic? Of course we got Steven Gerrard & even he is amazed by Salah’s iconic performance in Liverpool shirt.

We don’t care about their religious background but you do so I don’t associate myself with hate.
 
It is very sad.

The Shepard will be happy if and when this lost sheep rejoins the other 99.
 
Well I don’t really want to go off track but where has the Catholic Church suggested that people should or can get married at 14 please?
I’ve never heard anything like that from priests in Australia but maybe your referring to a different country?
 
Can. 1083 §1. A man before he has completed his sixteenth year of age and a woman before she has completed her fourteenth year of age cannot enter into a valid marriage.

§2. The conference of bishops is free to establish a higher age for the licit celebration of marriage.

I’m referring to canon law. http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_P3Y.HTM

Now we have to respect the laws of the land, but the bare minimum age to partake in the sacrament of marriage in the eyes of the catholic church is 14 for women and 16 for men
 
There is nothing wrong with age difference. It is not about age it is about how you connect with the other person and the love you share. And also about maturity - there are 20 year olds who have more maturity than some 40 year olds.
That said. She didn’t have to convert to Islam, she could have let him stay Muslim and stay Christian herself. I know of several successful couples who stayed married respecting each other’s faith.
But that’s her choice. I agree, I don’t understand it either and couldn’t do it myself, but… Live and let live.
 
Sorry if you have perceived it as hate.
It isn’t meant as hate at all.
I don’t know much about football but I have no doubt there are lovely wonderful muslim footballers as there are lovely wonderful Muslims in all areas of life.
My post wasn’t anything against Muslims-rather it was meant to be about how people perceived about this girl leaving catholic faith to become a different religion/faith for “romantic loves sake” and how his parents had perhaps done a great job raising him in their faith but perhaps hers were more indifferent to their religion hence why it was easy for her to make the decision to convert?

If he had of been a Hindu or a Buddhist etc then the question would have been the same.
Ie:about the easiness of her leaving the catholic faith and not anything against Muslims (or any other religion).

To clarify:
I love Muslims and people of all religions (and agnostics etc).
Some people of my own background (Bosnian) are Muslims so of course I have nothing but love for Muslims!!
 
Thanks🙂.
How does this play out in reality though?
Ie:how often does this really happen though?
Ie:in which instances have catholic priests officiated weddings involving a 14 year old girl or even 16 year olds?
I see what the link states, but in reality if a catholic priest married children of that age in Australia there would be outrage here.
 
Maybe one day they’ll both become catholic.
Stranger things have happened…
 
She doesn’t need attaboys, she needs somebody to keep her safe from acid attacks. I wouldn’t expect anybody apart from her family being willing to put their safety at risk to keep her safe.
 
phil19034 said:
My Archbishop has a saying “Catechized but not Evangelized” … which describes many people today. They know what the Church teaches, but it doesn’t really matter because they are not properly evangelized.

Far too many people (esp youth) in our parishes are Catechized but not Evangelized - which often leads them to leave the faith when they hit a stumbling block.
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This.

Should be on a banner hung inside every parish, it should the the topic of a parish mission once each year, it should be part of the Baptismal Prep class that parents/godparents take before a baptism.
 
The legal age to marry under Australian law is 18…there would be no reason for your priests to question that…


Australia has a very low attendance of church goers… somewhere around 7-8% are regular attendees…it is a secular country…even here in the US only around 24% of Catholics are regular mass attendees…just because they call themselves Catholic is meaningless if they don’t follow the teachings of the faith…if a Christian were to convert to another faith there is nothing stopping them…apart from the fact if they knowingly do it with the knowledge they are rejecting Jesus Christ then that is something they will have to one day answer to God…Muslims who convert…or try to convert to the Christian faith may face a more direct dire consequence for their action…I believe that Father Joseph Ratzinger before he became Pope Benedict XV1 predicted…(or prophesied) that the Catholic church will become much smaller…

 
That’s because it’s against Australian law. Priests have to abide by the laws of the land. Most countries have higher age of consent laws. But I’m sure it’s happened. Probably more often in the past.
 
I would like to remind everybody who posted negatively to consider what they would think if the tables were turned and the husband had converted to Catholicism. Most of the posters here would think it was the best thing in the world. It is quite the double standard.

Perhaps the wife found something in Islam that was meaningful to her.
 
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