Why should Catholics avoid mixed marriages?
A. Catholics should avoid mixed marriages: 1. Because they are displeasing to the Church and cannot bring with them the full measure of God’s grace and blessing; 2. Because the children should have the good example of both parents in the practice of their religion; 3. Because such marriages give rise to frequent disputes on religious questions between husband and wife and between their relatives; 4. Because the one not a Catholic, disregarding the sacred character of the Sacrament, may claim a divorce and marry again, leaving the Catholic married and abandoned. Q. 1043. Does the Church seek to make converts by its laws concerning mixed marriages? A. The Church does not seek to make converts by its laws concerning mixed marriages, but seeks only to keep its children from losing their faith and becoming perverts by constant company with persons not Catholics. The Church does not wish persons to become Catholics merely for the sake of marrying Catholics. Such conversions are, as a rule, n
