Catholics and Jews?

Question

Why is it so difficult for Jews and Catholic to be wed?? i dont understand. Catholics believe in Jesus and Jesus was Jewish.
Make no sense to me. Help! Thanks!!

Answer 1

Ok- I will speak as an Orthodox Jew:

Its very simple- Judaism does not recognise that there can be a marriage between a Jew and a non-Jew. Why not? Since the two are not bound by the same laws (non-JEws only have the Seven Noahide Laws), and the marriage is done in the name of the laws from Sinai- the non-jew cannot be bound by laws that are not applicable to them!

On top of that- the Torah explictly forbids the marrying of non-Jews. For women - because their Jewish children (if your mother is Jewish, so are you) will be lost due to the influence of their fathers idolotorous practices. For Men- because their children WON"T be Jewish and their name will be lost to Bnei Yisrael.

so we have a legal reason (the marriage would not be binding on the non-jew) and an explicit prohibition from the Torah.

Answer 2

There are many, many reasons:

1. You say that Catholics believe in J*sus and because J*sus was Jewish that should be okay.

This Jew says: we believe that J*sus was an evil man and a heretic. To teach a Jew (i.e. our children) that he was a prophet or a god is heresy and evil and our souls should never reach G-d. Would you as a Catholic be okay with your children being brought up this way? Probably not. "Catholics believe in Jesus and Jesus was Jewish." Yes that's true. But Jews don't believe in J*sus.

2. Jewish culture.
The heart of the Jewish family is the Jewish home. With a Catholic mother there is no Jewish home. Hence we lose another family to the destruction of Judaism. Many observant Jews are (naturally) against this because it is bad. Not only that, even if the man does go ahead and marry you, he is now cut off from the community--and the Jewish community is the second most important part of a Jewish life. It just can't happen.

Peace, and best of luck to you
If you have any more questions or want clarification on anything I've said, feel free to email me or IM me

B'Shalom

Answer 3

I knew many Catholics who married Jews back in New York. In most cases, they were married in a civil ceremony, but a few married in houses of worship. One thing is for certain: If the wife is the Jewish person, the children are automatically Jewish. If the husband is the Jewish person, it doesn't matter whether they raise the children as Catholics or as Jews.

In the cases where the Catholic is very religious, and the Jewish person is not, sometimes they marry in the Catholic church--with the promise that the children will be raised as Catholics.

Answer 4

Catholics tend to have a strict view on Marriage in general. Catholics believe that Marriage is a holy sacrament and should not be given out to anyone who wishes to be married within the church.

The Jewish people do not believe in the divinity of Christ. It is no harder for a Jew and a Catholic to be wed and an Atheist and a Catholic in the same circumstance.

Answer 5

Catholics are not permitted to marry outside their faith without getting special permission. Christians in general (Catholics and others) are given an indication in the Bible (which we all believe to be God's Word and therefore a source of authoritative teaching) that Christians should not marry those who are not Christians (2 Corinthians 6:14). And, just as a matter of practicality, if both the Catholic and the Jew are seriously practicing their faiths, the differences in what they believe will cause huge communication problems in the marriage. Any competent marriage counselor of either faith would point this out to them.

Answer 6

One reason, as mentioned, is that Jews do not believe that Jesus was the messiah. This can make it hard on both partners as you can probably imagine. In addition, very traditional Jews consider it unacceptable to marry outside of the faith, making it hard on the Jewish partner to remain with his/her community (I don't know whether this is true for Catholics or not). There can also be significant pressure from parents who feel that their child is rejecting his/her tradition (I imagine that would be equally true for either faith). Finally, the issue of which faith the children (assuming that there will be any) will be taught can be a very difficult one. I don't think that this is unique to Catholic-Jewish relationships; children issues are true in any Jewish-other interfaith marriage.

Personally, I don't think today that many Jews are sensitive to any real or perceived issues with the Catholic church per se; it's more of Jewish vs. non-Jewish than anything else.

Answer 7

Religious Jews reject Jesus as the Messiah.

Read about Jews: https://www.lcms.org/graphics/assets/media/CTCR/Judaism%20Evaluation%200306.pdf

Read about Roman Catholics: http://www.lcms.org/pages/internal.asp?NavID=2968

They couldn't be farther apart in beliefs about who God is.

Answer 8

The Catholic Church allows marriage between Catholics and non-baptized persons (like Jews).

You will have to get permission from the bishop. This is because the Church recognizes the tremendous challenge you have ahead of you.

Make an appointment with your parish priest and talk to him about your situation.

With love in Christ.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Catholics believe Jesus is the son of God Jewish people believe he was a profit Catholics believe he is the savior of the world and so do I