How could a Catholic priest allow an apparently “good” Catholic girl to marry an avowed Atheist?
Also, what kind of example is it to encourage people to marry heathens in the hope of converting them? All of you reading this who support what this lady did ought be to longing for your daughters to marry ungodly men.
I don’t get it. Something good can come from something bad, but this should never be encouraged and it was not/is not godly.
Was he "an avowed" or "professed" when they got married? Serious question.
As to the general question, I don't know the "rules" for mixed marriages. I do know that if he hadn't allowed her to marry him, another group would be complaining about the dictatorial Catholic Church and the way those child-molesting clergyman try to run every life but their own.
In my former life I did a lot of pre-marital "work-ups". I hated most of them. The couple didn't want to be there, they sure didn't think that an aged (like, maybe 35 year old) minister could POSSIBLY understand the depths of their love, blah, blah, blah.
But despite appearances, I think reasonable people generally only intervene when things are just terrible. I only refused to do one wedding. Within two weeks of the wedding the bride was asking me how to get an annulment - after she got married by some other person. I told her that against advice and knowing what she was doing she had made a life-long commitment and that the burden was on her to show why it was invalid. She was not amused, to say the very least.