How do Roman Catholic priests feel about...?

Question

How do Roman Catholic priests feel about a woman who is marrying someone with a different religion. Or is even ok in the first place?

Answer 1

The following is the teaching of the Church about your question.

Mixed marriages and disparity of cult
1633
In many countries the situation of a mixed marriage (marriage between a Catholic and a baptized non-Catholic) often arises. It requires particular attention on the part of couples and their pastors. A case of marriage with disparity of cult (between a Catholic and a non-baptized person) requires even greater circumspection.

1634
Difference of confession between the spouses does not constitute an insurmountable obstacle for marriage, when they succeed in placing in common what they have received from their respective communities, and learn from each other the way in which each lives in fidelity to Christ. But the difficulties of mixed marriages must not be underestimated. They arise from the fact that the separation of Christians has not yet been overcome. The spouses risk experiencing the tragedy of Christian disunity even in the heart of their own home. Disparity of cult can further aggravate these difficulties. Differences about faith and the very notion of marriage, but also different religious mentalities, can become sources of tension in marriage, especially as regards the education of children. The temptation to religious indifference can then arise.

1635
According to the law in force in the Latin Church, a mixed marriage needs for liceity the express permission of ecclesiastical authority.137 In case of disparity of cult an express dispensation from this impediment is required for the validity of the marriage.138 This permission or dispensation presupposes that both parties know and do not exclude the essential ends and properties of marriage; and furthermore that the Catholic party confirms the obligations, which have been made known to the non-Catholic party, of preserving his or her own faith and ensuring the baptism and education of the children in the Catholic Church.139

1636
Through ecumenical dialogue Christian communities in many regions have been able to put into effect a common pastoral practice for mixed marriages. Its task is to help such couples live out their particular situation in the light of faith, overcome the tensions between the couple's obligations to each other and towards their ecclesial communities, and encourage the flowering of what is common to them in faith and respect for what separates them.1637 In marriages with disparity of cult the Catholic spouse has a particular task: "For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated through her husband."140 It is a great joy for the Christian spouse and for the Church if this "consecration" should lead to the free conversion of the other spouse to the Christian faith.141 Sincere married love, the humble and patient practice of the family virtues, and perseverance in prayer can prepare the non-believing spouse to accept the grace of conversion.
Peace and every blessing!

Answer 2

The Catholic Church is ok with it, provided that the wedding takes place before a Catholic priest.

Likewise, the children must be raised Catholic, also.

Answer 3

I am not a Roman Catholic but I did get married in a Catholic church to a woman who was at the time Catholic. The only thing I had to do to get married in the Catholic church was prove that I was baptized and promise to raise our children Catholic. Yeah so I didn't actually keep my end of the bargain but I'm sorry they don't have the right to tell me how to raise my children. We are all Baptist now, I was a Baptist back then.

Answer 4

I was at a wedding 3 weeks ago where a catholic girl married a muslim guy, in a catholic church, in a catholic cermony.

No one cared. The Priest was bang on actually.

Answer 5

The Catholic church is fine with mixed marriages, but some parish priests ask that the children be raised as Catholic.

Answer 6

The Catholic Church allows marriage between Catholics and non-Catholics.

Because the Church recognizes the tremendous challenge that the interfaith couple will face, they may have to get permission from the bishop.

With love in Christ.

Answer 7

It is my speculation that they feel threatened if their power is eroded by declining membership and are likely to find scripture to support the notion that marrying outside the faith is heresy.

Answer 8

Same way they feel about little boys

Answer 9

I don't think they have the right to feel anything... they are not 'with' this woman, they don't have the right to judge them, nor choose their mate for them...

Answer 10

ask them