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abbycat
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Posted: Tue Mar 25th, 2008 03:31 pm |
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The daughter of a close girlfriend of mine recently married a man who is Catholic. She is Methodist. I was told she is not converting to the Catholic faith. They were married in the Catholic Church.
How can this be?
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Annie
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Posted: Tue Mar 25th, 2008 03:58 pm |
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| They were probably married in the chapel or something.
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Posted: Tue Mar 25th, 2008 05:02 pm |
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| Abby, the Church will allow a Catholic to marry a non-Catholic Christian with a full celebration in a Catholic parish if the man and woman have applied in advance with the priest and have submitted to pre-marital counseling and satisfied Church requirements for such couples. There are more details that could be given, but these answer your question, I think.
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Dave Armstrong
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Posted: Tue Mar 25th, 2008 08:10 pm |
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Assuming there are no impediments such as former marriages, and so forth, the Church allows this, provided that the non-Catholic agrees to 1) having children, and 2) baptizing and raising them as Catholics.
How often the agreement is followed through is another story, but that is the ideal and the ostensible arrangement, in any event. If the couple decides to not do what they vowed to do, the fault lies with them, not with the Church.
Last edited on Tue Mar 25th, 2008 08:12 pm by Dave Armstrong
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Ora_pro_nobis
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Posted: Tue Mar 25th, 2008 10:14 pm |
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Hi Abby,
I have personnaly maried my wife who is a Baptist in the Catholic Church. All she needed to do was to get a dispensation from my Bishop. However, under those circumstances (according to the "Canon Law" of course), the non-Catholic acknowledges that the children must be raised into the Catholic faith.
Hope this help!
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abbycat
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Posted: Wed Mar 26th, 2008 06:19 pm |
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I imagine you are right about the special dispensation. And, I can believe their children would be raised in the Catholic faith as both of their sets of parents are Catholic.
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