The Marriage Ceremony

The church prefers that ecumenical interfaith couples marry in a Catholic church, preferably the Catholic party’s parish church because catholics regard marriage as a sacred event. When they desire to marry somewhere else, they need to get authorization through the regional bishop. He is able to allow them to marry into the non-Catholic spouse’s spot of worship or any other place that is suitable a minister, rabbi, or civil magistrate – if they have a very good reason, based on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. This authorization is known as a “dispensation from canonical kind.” Without it, a marriage perhaps perhaps perhaps not held in a Catholic church isn’t considered legitimate. Continue reading “Ecumenical and Interfaith Marriages:What You Ought To Understand” →