#12544 What Should Catholics Know About Marrying Non-Catholics? - Gregory Popcak
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“What should Catholics know about marrying non-Catholics?” This question opens a discussion on the complexities of interfaith relationships, including advice for Catholics in such unions. Additional topics include the relationship between prayer and counseling, and how to navigate conversations when a fiancé expresses a desire to leave the Catholic faith.
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Questions Covered:
- 02:15 – Relationship between prayer and counseling
- 16:52 – What is your advice to Catholics who marry non-Catholics?
- 23:57 – Where would you recommend, we go to study psychology that’s faithful and reliable?
- 29:25 – My fiancé says she wants to become Lutheran because she despises the Catholic Church. What advice can you offer to help navigate the conversation?
- 36:10 – Is Catholic counseling compatible with neuroplasticity, whether mental illness is also spiritual illness, how does that relate to taking medicine?
- 44:37 – Could you repeat what you said about when and how to approach people and share that you care about them?
- 49:54 – How can I help my family come back to the Catholic Church?
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| 0:46.3 | And also someone who just has done yeoman's work, tremendous work, in applying the science of psychology to the healing charism of the church |
| 1:00.1 | and connecting these things in a way that honors both the science itself and the revelation |
| 1:05.4 | of God and Jesus and the healing power of Jesus. |
| 1:08.9 | It's great work. |
| 1:09.9 | And I hope that over the coming... |
| 1:11.6 | I'm kind of open we can work more with you, Greg, |
| 1:14.4 | and get people to know more about that work, |
| 1:17.1 | because it's like the thing... |
| 1:18.4 | We're hiding this thing that the world needs so desperately. |
| 1:22.6 | Welcome, Greg, first of all. |
| 1:24.8 | Thrill to be here. Thank you so much, So I... Do you have the same sense that there's this, I mean, the, the, in the Catholic Church, Christ himself is a healer. The church, uh, wants people to be healed. We have, the church is, has never been opposed to science. As a matter of fact, she's been its great, great kind of patron. |
| 1:48.1 | But when you put these together, a scientific knowledge and a will to heal as Christ heals, |
| 1:53.2 | you got something really potent. |
| 1:55.9 | No, I think that's absolutely true. You know, I think that what we try to do at Catholic |
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