But we don't let a minor thing like that keep us apart! Since she's Roman Catholic and I'm Lutheran, we've made a pact never to go to Church, and we haven't, after 24 years of Marriage. (She's my 2nd and FINAL Wife!) Yeah...we're happily married! Hal
I guess they changed the rules about Catholics marrying divorced men. Oops, I'm assuming you're divorced...could be a widower...sorry.
When my soon to be first wife and I consulted several Priests (she was Catholic, I am not), we got diverse and dubious advice as far as the Church rule requiring guarantee of raising children as Catholics was concerned. They all agreed I would have to sign such personal guarantee; however, the first suggested I sign, then forget about it! The hypocrit! Second said it was being proposed to be abolished (when was unknown), we could wait...... (we couldn't, not for that reason, anyway). The third gave the best advice of all: get married in a Lutheran Church, it being quite similar, if that be agreeable to us, and possibly her parents. We did the third. Frank
whose rules? My father was a staunch Divorced protestant, and my mother was a an unmarried young Catholic... they married in a register office without anyone's permission...although after they were married and she wanted out of it, she did used to say to my father ''we're not married in the eyes of God'', so there is no legal obligation for me to remain here''... she was wrong unfortunately..
Not going to Church doesn't make you spiritually incompatible in my book @Hal Pollner. Catholics and Lutherans believe in the same God, the same Jesus, Holy Spirit...and the same Truth in the Bible (for the most part). If one of you doesn't believe while the other does...that would be more of spiritual incompatibility to me. But you two seem to be on the same page and in agreement so even though you may be on different steps spiritually...even that does not mean you are spiritually incompatible.