Day 223: Differences in Religion in Marriage

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 8 August 2023

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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 is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to The Catechism in a Year Podcast,
0:09.4	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed
0:13.4	down to the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in years brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.6	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity
0:22.7	and God's family. As we journey together to our heavenly home, this is day 223, we're reading
0:27.4	paragraphs 1633 to 1637. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which
0:32.9	includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version
0:36.5	of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a
0:39.9	year reading plan by visiting AscensionPress.com slash C-I-Y, and you can also click
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0:48.3	today is day 223. We're looking at mixed marriages and disparity of cult. We looked at
0:53.1	yesterday the invitation, the necessity of matrimonial consent, and what matrimonial consent
0:58.5	actually is today. We're looking at what happens when there are some irregularities. We'll
1:03.7	say it like this. Irregularities that do not prohibit people from entering into marriage
1:08.3	with each other, but still are things we need to be aware of. So the two kind of things
1:13.3	we're looking at here are mixed marriages and disparity of cult. Easy for me to say.
1:18.1	Mixed marriage is what? Marriage between a Catholic and a baptized non-Catholic disparity
1:22.4	of cult would be between a Catholic and a non-Baptized person. So we're looking at some
1:27.1	of those not only how can couples move forward in this, but also the question of what are
1:33.3	some of the issues that would come up? Why does the church even have teaching on this?
1:38.0	Why does the church even have, I don't want to say an opinion because that's not. There's
1:41.4	some things that are disciplines of the church that might be like a theological opinion.
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