Jake Huether Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 I'm reading this book by F. Sheed, called "Theology for Beginners". On pg. 60, Sheed mentions breifly, in passing, that the Church doesn't like mixed marriages... Is this true? And if so, what exactly is meant by "mixed". Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mulls Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 i would hope it's not referring to race, but rather being unequally yoked to an unbeliever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thy Geekdom Come Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 I'm with Mulls, I would assume that it means being married to someone who is not Catholic. It's not against the laws of the Church, but it is frowned upon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 It is true (I'm pretty sure it's in the catechism) and it refers to the marriage of a Catholic to a non-Catholic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Yep, they're all correct -- a mixed marriage is between a Catholic and a non-Catholic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mulls Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 [quote name='Raphael' date='Oct 12 2004, 02:09 PM'] I'm with Mulls, I would assume that it means being married to someone who is not Catholic. It's not against the laws of the Church, but it is frowned upon. [/quote] why isn't it against the law of the Church? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 [quote name='mulls' date='Oct 12 2004, 02:29 PM'] why isn't it against the law of the Church? [/quote] Perhaps the Church realizes there's a possibility that God might want to use the Catholic party as an instrument to help bring the non-Catholic party into the Church. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toledo_jesus Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 [quote name='Dave' date='Oct 12 2004, 02:36 PM'] Perhaps the Church realizes there's a possibility that God might want to use the Catholic party as an instrument to help bring the non-Catholic party into the Church. [/quote] perhaps so. From a sociological standpoint, however, it really opens the Church up to diminishing Her numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 [quote name='toledo_jesus' date='Oct 12 2004, 01:43 PM'] perhaps so. From a sociological standpoint, however, it really opens the Church up to diminishing Her numbers. [/quote] How so? I mean, I would think it could open the church up to augmenting her numbers as much as it could to diminishing them. I mean, I know plenty of people who have come into the church because of a significant other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popestpiusx Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 It is against Church law. That's why you are required to have a sort of dispensation in order to depart from it. This is with good reason. It has disasterous effects both on the spouse, and especially on the children. I've seen the results of this first hand in my own family. It leads to indifferentism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azriel Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 It can also work. There is a reason that dispensations are given. Az "married 10 years to a non Catholic" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcePrincessKRS Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 My parents were a "mixed" marriage (haha actually, "mixed" in both senses of the word...). Dad converted when I was quite young... I'm not sure exactly how old I was, I remember him receiving his First Communion, etc., though. Even before he became Catholic he always came to Mass with us as a family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popestpiusx Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 [quote name='Azriel' date='Oct 12 2004, 03:18 PM'] It can also work. There is a reason that dispensations are given. Az "married 10 years to a non Catholic" [/quote] I didn't say it could not work. I know it can work in some sense. My grandparents have been married for 65 years. My grandfather is Lutheran, grandmother Catholic. What I also know is 7 of their 8 children see no difference between the two now, even though they were raised Catholic, even as "good" Catholics. I also know that after 65 years my grandmother has definitely moved closer to Lutheranism, than my grandfather has to Catholicism. I know exceptions to this as well, but I know many more whose mixed marriages have been disastrous. Most of them have left the Church for another religion or just stopped practicing anything. Some continue to go to Church but hold heretical beliefs mysteriously similar to those of the non-Catholic spouse. But as you said, there is a reason dispensations can be granted and I hope you are one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 [quote name='Azriel' date='Oct 12 2004, 01:18 PM'] It can also work. There is a reason that dispensations are given. Az "married 10 years to a non Catholic" [/quote] i never even knew about this, and i don't think my marriage was granted a dispensation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azriel Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Lil - if you were married in a Catholic Church, then most likely you were given a dispsensation by your Diocese. Its something that your Priest would request. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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