What do you think of a marriage between Muslim and Catholic? Is it okay?

Question

I am a muslim an have a catholic girlfriend, and we don't know how to proceed. Pls help

Answer 1

I'm doing this fairly soon, I'm the Catholic, he's the Muslim.

The Catholic Church does have some procedures for interfaith marriages to Islamic people, based on the procedures used for marriages to Jewish people.

In order for her marriage to be recognized within the Church: She much not already have a recognized marriage on record. If she is divorced, she must apply to have the previous marriage annulled. Both of you must attend counseling sessions with the Church and the priest. Usually this is a few visits with the priest and a retreat. There are a few retreats that are geared specifically toward Catholic/Islamic couples and the special challenges they face. It is her duty as a Catholic to ensure that any children produced by the marriage are raised Catholic. But I can safely say that it's important for children to love and respect both faiths. The Roman Catholic church considers any parishoner who has undergone the Sacrement of Confirmation to be an adult, and to be able to make an adult decision. Loving and kind parents will make that choice easier for your children.

For the Mosque... So far it is largely my understanding that we need only make the appointment and have our two witnesses, Muslim men, to sign.

I was surprised that the mosque has so little to do with the marriage, but then I have found that the Islamic approach toward marriage is a lot diferent than my own. Same values, just different approach.

Answer 2

It is ok in Islam to marry her, but I don't know how the Catholic Church would feel about that. Somehow I suspect they will not accept it well, or at all. If you decide to proceed, you really need to discuss the issue of children and their religion NOW so it does not become an issue later. She needs to know that any children from your marriage need to be raised as Muslim. If she cannot accept that you will have a lot of problems. I wish you the best and I hope you can agree on the important issues you have in front of you.

Answer 3

U have to ask your gf and yourself first. Are you 2 dead serious about this relationship? Time being you are still at dating stage ... doubt this will affect you a lot ...

When it comes to marriage, you should know that your partner has to convert to muslim ... is she ready for this? Is she really willing to change for you? And what will you do if she's not willing to convert? Are you the very conserve type of muslim? Or you are simply fine with your wife, continueing to be a catholic? Is your family willing to accept a girl like her ? Is it against your religion? What about your children ? Muslim, catholic ??

These are the things you should Consider ....

Answer 4

The Church is aware of the danger of religious indifference and probable conflict over the duty of the baptism and education of children in the Catholic faith. The Catholic Church demands of Catholic partners that they should be prepared to remove all dangers of falling away from the faith and make a sincere promise to have all the children baptized and brought up in the Catholic Church; and that the other party is fully aware of this obligation.

For more information about this subject please go to this link and look for section 1633 and following. http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt2sect2chpt3art7.htm

Peace and every blessing!

Answer 5

The Church told you it would be good? Sorry, that doesn't make sense. How can children be taught to love and worship Jesus in one religion, and reject Him in another? As a Catholic, you have the obligation to raise your children Catholic. You have a responsibility to teach them the truth of Jesus Christ. I don't know how this will take with your fiance, but the Faith is vitally important. Souls depend on it. God bless.

Answer 6

;-) only if they're of the same sex ;-)

Sonnet CXVI
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
-- William Shakespeare

Answer 7

Go for premarital counseling. You will have a lot to work out. Will one of you convert? What religion will the children be raised? Will you celebrate Christmas?

Answer 8

If you love each other, you can work past your differences and learn to respect them. In fact, they shouldn't even be an issue.

If you feel the need to question if your relationship is "OK" because of religion, chances are you aren't ready to work through the differences.

Answer 9

If you convert to Christianity then it's OK. Otherwise the Bible tells her not to get married to you, sorry about that. I don't mean to be insulting but anyone who claims they honor the eternal Son of God who laid down his life to pay our sin debt by calling Him a human prophet doesn't believe in the Jesus of the Bible.

John 3:12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Answer 10

This is a tough one. I have spent many an all-nighter consumed with this conundrum. If only I cared, I tell myself, I could figure it out. Alas, no success. You are on your own.