Mixed marriage between Catholic and Protestant.

I don't know but I think Christians should be wary of marrying Catholics, too much corruptions and deviation from scripture all the best urban

Catholic and Protestant are both denominations of Christianity. While there is difference in doctrine (interpretation of Biblical texts), I find it very funny that a devoted and practicing Christian would care that much about denominational guidelines. Simply be a Christian aka Christ-like and you will have no need to dispute trivial differences.

My daughter is protestant, and her hubby is/was catholic. I don't think the church recognizes their marriage, but the government does, and that's all that truly matters. She was willing to switch to being Catholic, for the sake of her hubby and any future children, but the priest was very (VERY) rude and said he would not let her into the classes, nor would he marry them. IE: she should stay with her protestant church and not marry this catholic man! Instead of gaining a faithful new member in the catholic church, the priest lost one; he quit the catholic church to became protestant. To kind of answer your question, I think the catholic church would not recognize a marriage ceremony held in a protestant church because they didn't recognize my daughter & her hubby's.

Good question. My knowledge on this is probably quite outdated, but I'll have a go! A young couple in my bible study group are of such an arrangement. They seem very happy & comfortable with each other, though they are childless. The guy is or was Catholic & the girl is still Lutheran. I think they both like this particular Lutheran Church better than the Catholic Churches in the area & that may be the only big reason. From what I can recall, there is a lot more paperwork involved in such a marriage & sifting through future possibilities & details that either or both parties may not feel sure about or comfortable in discussing. My own marriage preparation was quite simple & consisted of a series of written tests that we had to individually fill out & these were handed in & sent to head office for processing; the results were returned to the minister about a week later & we were called in to discuss them. The tests took about an hour in total, from memory, though it seemed like five minutes at the time! In answer to the original question, I think the Catholic Church do recognize it, but in 50/50 cases, the "rules" - which may have changed - seem heavily skewed in favour of the Catholic partner, particularly if the Catholic Church holds the ceremony. There was a book called "so what's the difference?" which highlighted a whole host of points to note in such a marriage - it certainly put me off & I left all the Catholic girlies well alone! I think it was published in 1968 & things may have changed since then - do you think? I think there should be more such marriages & would be in favour of seeing things worked out on a practical & common-sense level that is equally beneficial to both parties & helping each other to continue their journeys in Christ. Would it be too much to expect more peace between the churches if more people were of such mixed marriages? Would Churches be more prepared to put dogma & doctrine aside in favour of growing together in the love of Christ & encouraging mutual support of each others journeys?