I am protestant, and my girlfriend is catholic. We are doing very well, but I am worried that if we got married there could be problems because my faith is very important to me.
2006-09-06 13:27:41 · 10 answers · asked by ERIC B 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Marriage is all about compromise, not just in regards to religion but in all aspects of life. you will have to work it out which means compromise
2006-09-06 13:34:38 · answer #1 · answered by patricia_hyland72 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an ex Catholic and I know the ropes. If you get married and the person your dating is a strong Catholic then you will have to sign a statement for the Catholic Church stating that you will have to raise all the Children Catholic.
If a person that is baptized (as an infant) Catholic should they ever decide to leave the Church will (in the Roman Catholic teaching) forever burn in hell, because in the Roman Catholic Church there is only one true Church (the Roman Catholic Church). You will probably be required to send your kids to Catholic Doctrine Class or perhaps to a Catholic school.
If you want to know more just send me an email. There are many things wrong, theologically and denomination ally with the Catholic Church. You should try to show her all the things wrong with Catholicism and get her out, then marry her.
If your faith is very important to you then you and your girlfriend will not leave the Catholic church then I would say. There are many other fish in the sea. Don't marry her and be unequally yoked.
2006-09-06 13:40:59 · answer #2 · answered by J-Artist 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why not?
I know many such families and the children went to both churches and the children decided which faith to follow; some chose this one and some chose that one.
Curious enough, I also know a few families where they practice three religions (the mother has one, the father has another and the grown children have yet another....) and they also belong to different political parties! Talk about differences! Those kids, by the way, grew up with such healthy dispositions and had the highest grades throughout regular school and college! All in the family are "professionals" in their own fields (doctors, lawyers, therapists, educators, etc).
2006-09-06 13:34:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most Likely? -- The Catholics will have a big prob with her marrying a Protestant, but your church won't care.
I was Episcopal and married a Catholic at a private ceremony with a Methodist pastor. Now we're Lutheran, kiddies and all.
2006-09-06 14:06:24 · answer #4 · answered by Rapunzel XVIII 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it could work if you both work together. It is a matter of respecting each other's faith and beliefs. I grew in a family where my dad was Methodist and my mother was Catholic. My parents are still together 28 years later. It can be done! :)
2006-09-06 13:41:28 · answer #5 · answered by ladypantherra 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholic - married sixteen years to an attractive Baptist female (aka "a Protestant") relationship? -- in what way? that query has many connotations. additionally.. there are countless thousand, probable greater then 20 or 30 thousand distinctive "Protestant" religions, so it may well be fairly stressful to make some generalizations that ought to notice to all of them. working example.. my spouse's church has no longer undertaking with celebrating Lent, making use of creation candles, fasting, and so on. the place as some Baptist church homes might have subject concerns with that. So in specific cases, even interior a different Denomination, there are variations. __________________________________ usually although, Protestants do no longer interpret the bible an identical way Catholics do. they do no longer trust the seen Sacraments. have faith in Sola Scriptura (bible on my own) and Sola Fide (faith on my own) Catholics on the different hand have faith in the Bible yet with our interpretation pass checked by making use of history and Apostolic custom. Catholics have faith in 7 Sacraments instituted by making use of Christ. Catholics even have faith in a Magestrium with Apostolic succession (from the Apostles) to interpret the Bible and teach Catholics, with the intention to maintain the religion consistent and unchanging. Protestants usually reject this theory and want own interpretation which has led to branch, separation, fracturing, and a lot of diffused differences to the religion. Catholics are the main important single team interior Christianity, accounting for roughly 60% at sort of a million.2 billion of the two.0 billion. all of the the rest denominations prepare purely account for sort of 800 million. whether or no longer non-Catholic Christians evaluate themselves "Protestant" or no longer, all of them tend to discover what they think in terms of ways it compares to Catholicism or the way it differs. they generally do no longer oppose or argue against different smaller denominations as much as they do Catholicism. So whether or no longer they think of that the term "Protestant" nevertheless applies, in some techniques, it nevertheless does.
2016-10-14 09:50:40 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Works on Family Guy.
2006-09-06 13:29:55 · answer #7 · answered by reid296 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Much of it depends on if you will allow her to freely practice her fiath as well and raise the children in her faith.
2006-09-06 13:30:23 · answer #8 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my dad's catholic my mom is protestant and they are still together. i'm 18.
2006-09-06 13:37:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not just admit you're wrong, and convert now, without a fight?
Resistance is futile.
2006-09-06 20:18:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋