Day 223: Differences in Religion in Marriage (2024)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Can a Catholic marry a baptized non-Catholic or a non-baptized person? Fr. Mike breaks down the Church’s teaching on mixed marriages and disparity of cult. The Catechism teaches us that while a difference in religion “does not constitute an insurmountable obstacle for marriage,” it can often be a source of tension in marriage and present significant challenges when raising a family. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1625-1632.
This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi my name's Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Catechism |
| 0:08.2 | in a year podcast where we encounter God's plan if sheer goodness for us |
| 0:11.7 | revealed in scripture and passed down to the tradition of the |
| 0:14.4 | Catholic faith, the Catechism in years brought to you by ascension. In 365 days, we'll read |
| 0:19.7 | through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity in God's family as we journey |
| 0:24.4 | together toward our heavenly home. This is day 223. We're reading paragraphs 1633 to 1637. |
| 0:30.7 | As always, I'm using the Ascension Edition of the Catechism which includes a foundations of faith approach, |
| 0:34.4 | but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. |
| 0:38.0 | You can also download your own Catechism in a year reading plan by visiting Ascension Press. |
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| 0:46.4 | updates or daily notifications because today is a 223 |
| 0:50.0 | we're looking at mixed marriages and disparity of cult. |
| 0:52.8 | We looked at yesterday the invitation, the necessity of matrimonial consent, |
| 0:57.2 | and what matrimonial consent actually is. |
| 0:59.5 | Today, we're looking at what happens when there are some irregularities we'll say it like |
| 1:04.0 | this irregularities that do not prohibit people from entering into marriage with |
| 1:08.6 | each other but still are things we need to be aware of so the two kind of things we're looking at here |
| 1:14.1 | are mixed marriages and disparity of cult. Easy for me to say. A mixed marriage |
| 1:18.4 | is what? Marriage between a Catholic and a baptized non-Catholic. Disparity of cult would be between a Catholic and a non-baptized person. |
| 1:25.9 | And so we're looking at some of those not only how can couples move forward in this, but also the question of what are some of the issues that would come up? |
| 1:35.5 | Why does the church even have teaching on this? |
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