Inter-religious Marriage

[Associate Justice PiT]

     How does your religious group approach its members marrying people of other faiths? I was thinking about this recently, since my wife and I belong to different churches and so my priest gave us a book on the subject written by an Orthodox priest, which we have found very interesting. I figured it would make a good topic for this board.

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     How does your religious group approach its members marrying people of other faiths? I was thinking about this recently, since my wife and I belong to different churches and so my priest gave us a book on the subject written by an Orthodox priest, which we have found very interesting. I figured it would make a good topic for this board.

My understanding was that the Orthodox Church is very strict on inter-religious marriage and only recognizes marriages between Orthodox Christians; this is actually more strict than the Catholic Church's approach, which basically asks you to raise all children in the Catholic faith, but they obviously can't enforce that. How were you both able to sidestep this requirement?

Anyway, the Episcopal Church will marry pretty much anyone, as will most mainline Protestant churches.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     How does your religious group approach its members marrying people of other faiths? I was thinking about this recently, since my wife and I belong to different churches and so my priest gave us a book on the subject written by an Orthodox priest, which we have found very interesting. I figured it would make a good topic for this board.

My understanding was that the Orthodox Church is very strict on inter-religious marriage and only recognizes marriages between Orthodox Christians; this is actually more strict than the Catholic Church's approach, which basically asks you to raise all children in the Catholic faith, but they obviously can't enforce that. How were you both able to sidestep this requirement?

Anyway, the Episcopal Church will marry pretty much anyone, as will most mainline Protestant churches.

     That canon is only strictly enforced in Orthodox-majority countries. In the United States, we are allowed to marry other Christians so long as they profess belief in the Holy Trinity (and also agree to raise them Orthodox).

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     How does your religious group approach its members marrying people of other faiths? I was thinking about this recently, since my wife and I belong to different churches and so my priest gave us a book on the subject written by an Orthodox priest, which we have found very interesting. I figured it would make a good topic for this board.

My understanding was that the Orthodox Church is very strict on inter-religious marriage and only recognizes marriages between Orthodox Christians; this is actually more strict than the Catholic Church's approach, which basically asks you to raise all children in the Catholic faith, but they obviously can't enforce that. How were you both able to sidestep this requirement?

Anyway, the Episcopal Church will marry pretty much anyone, as will most mainline Protestant churches.

     That canon is only strictly enforced in Orthodox-majority countries. In the United States, we are allowed to marry other Christians so long as they profess belief in the Holy Trinity (and also agree to raise them Orthodox).

Odd exception to make.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     How does your religious group approach its members marrying people of other faiths? I was thinking about this recently, since my wife and I belong to different churches and so my priest gave us a book on the subject written by an Orthodox priest, which we have found very interesting. I figured it would make a good topic for this board.

My understanding was that the Orthodox Church is very strict on inter-religious marriage and only recognizes marriages between Orthodox Christians; this is actually more strict than the Catholic Church's approach, which basically asks you to raise all children in the Catholic faith, but they obviously can't enforce that. How were you both able to sidestep this requirement?

Anyway, the Episcopal Church will marry pretty much anyone, as will most mainline Protestant churches.

     That canon is only strictly enforced in Orthodox-majority countries. In the United States, we are allowed to marry other Christians so long as they profess belief in the Holy Trinity (and also agree to raise them Orthodox).

Odd exception to make.

     It's based in the concept of economy, which determines that canons should be applied such that they work for the salvation of the faithful. Restrictions of that kind are instituted for our benefit, but exceptions are made where they prove unreasonably harsh and would tend to impede people's salvation. Less than 1% of Americans are Orthodox, so it would be very hard if we could only marry other Orthodox Christians and most of us would wind up being excommunicated.

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     How does your religious group approach its members marrying people of other faiths? I was thinking about this recently, since my wife and I belong to different churches and so my priest gave us a book on the subject written by an Orthodox priest, which we have found very interesting. I figured it would make a good topic for this board.

My understanding was that the Orthodox Church is very strict on inter-religious marriage and only recognizes marriages between Orthodox Christians; this is actually more strict than the Catholic Church's approach, which basically asks you to raise all children in the Catholic faith, but they obviously can't enforce that. How were you both able to sidestep this requirement?

Anyway, the Episcopal Church will marry pretty much anyone, as will most mainline Protestant churches.

     That canon is only strictly enforced in Orthodox-majority countries. In the United States, we are allowed to marry other Christians so long as they profess belief in the Holy Trinity (and also agree to raise them Orthodox).

I'm fairly surprised to see this, as a friend of mine converted to ROC for marriage.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     How does your religious group approach its members marrying people of other faiths? I was thinking about this recently, since my wife and I belong to different churches and so my priest gave us a book on the subject written by an Orthodox priest, which we have found very interesting. I figured it would make a good topic for this board.

My understanding was that the Orthodox Church is very strict on inter-religious marriage and only recognizes marriages between Orthodox Christians; this is actually more strict than the Catholic Church's approach, which basically asks you to raise all children in the Catholic faith, but they obviously can't enforce that. How were you both able to sidestep this requirement?

Anyway, the Episcopal Church will marry pretty much anyone, as will most mainline Protestant churches.

     That canon is only strictly enforced in Orthodox-majority countries. In the United States, we are allowed to marry other Christians so long as they profess belief in the Holy Trinity (and also agree to raise them Orthodox).

I'm fairly surprised to see this, as a friend of mine converted to ROC for marriage.

     Marriage conversions still happen, despite being unnecessary strictly speaking. There are benefits to a couple sharing the same faith after all, which is why the canon against inter-religious marriages exists in the first place.

     Along those lines, a married man can only be ordained in the Orthodox Church if his wife is Orthodox as well. It came up when we were talking to my priest before our wedding, as I had mentioned that I was pondering ordained life. Unless my wife were to convert, that is impossible for me now. I don't mind though.