I am Jewish and my fiance is Irish Catholic. We have a meeting on Tuesday with a priest that we hope will be able to marry us in February. We already have a rabbi. I am a little concerned about the type of questions he might ask us. We have already decided that the children will be raised with both religious backgrounds but I do not know if this will cause a problem with a Catholic priest. We are having the ceremony and reception in the same place so we do not have to find a Temple or Church that will allow both officiants. Please help I am a little nervous.
Heidi
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Please help ASAP first mtg. with Priest
If he doesn't accept your decision to raise your children w/ both backgrounds, find a new priest. You want someone who your comfortable w/, not someone dictating on how your kids should be raised.! good luck to you!
carrie
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Please help ASAP first mtg. with Priest
How can you teach your children that Jesus is the messiah and not the messiah at the same time? If you mean culturally catholic and jewish, that is nice. Religiously catholic and jewish does not seem possible. All of my friends that were raised 'both' turned out to follow neither and it is no wonder why.
Kathi
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Kinda long :)
Have no fear - it`s painless. Are you meeting with a Priest that is still with the Church or one that has been ordained Roman Catholic but is with a different order, i.e. 'New Catholic'? If it`s the latter, then you don`t have anything to be concerned about.
However, if your Priest is still with the Church and your FI is planning to get dispensation (to have your marriage recognized as a Sacrament), then your FI will be required - in writing - to 'promise to do everything in his power to raise the children in the Catholic faith by having them Baptized'. You only need to be 'informed' of his promise.
While it`s no one else`s business how you raise your children (the Church, of course, believes otherwise), I agree with Carrie in that it would be confusing to the children to be raised in *both* faiths. You can`t have a Bris and a Baptism, or a Confirmation and Bar Mitzvah.
We`re also a Jewish/Catholic couple and one of us had to compromise - we decided that our future children will be raised in one faith only, and will be aware of the other parent`s faith.
