Faith alone, not deeds, required for salvation, papal preacher tells pontiff

Catholic Online ^ | December 17, 2005 | Cindy Wooden

[conservonator]

So you are saying, today you can be married in a Catholic ceremony with the Holy Mass being said and not have a Sacramental marriage because one spouse is Jewish or nonreligious or whatever?

I do not believe that it is permissible to have a Mass at the marriage ceremony between a baptized Catholic and a unbaptized person.

[gbcdoj]

There used to be rules against that sort of thing, but they all went out in recent years, as I understand it.

On the other hand, the Church shows its great displeasure when Catholics do not keep its laws, but marry persons not of their own religion. At a mixed marriage the couple cannot be married in the church, nor even in the sacristy; the priest cannot wear a surplice or stole or any of the sacred vestments of the Church; he cannot use holy water, or the Sign of the Cross; he cannot bless the ring or even use the Church's language--Latin. Everything is done in the coldest manner, to remind Catholics that they are doing what is displeasing to their mother the Church.

From the Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism.

[Campion]

I do not believe that it is permissible to have a Mass at the marriage ceremony between a baptized Catholic and a unbaptized person.

Not permissable at a marriage between a baptized Catholic and a baptized non-Catholic, either.

[gbcdoj]

Not permissable at a marriage between a baptized Catholic and a baptized non-Catholic, either.

Because of problems concerning Eucharistic sharing which may arise from the presence of non-Catholic witnesses and guests, a mixed marriage celebrated according to the Catholic form ordinarily takes place outside the Eucharistic liturgy. For a just cause, however, the diocesan Bishop may permit the celebration of the Eucharist. (Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, Directory for the application of Principles and Norms of Ecumenism, 159)