[214] The widely noticed article "What it Means to Marry a Catholic," by a non-Catholic woman in the June Forum, simply confirms the wisdom of the attitude taken by the Church. As our readers know, the Church regards mixed marriages as an evil and permits them only in exceptional cases, under certain safeguards designed to protect the faith of the Catholic party and to insure the religious training of the children. The discrepancies between the Catholic and the Protestant points of view are irreconcilable, and the case could be made even stronger than it is stated by this non-Catholic woman, who regrets her mistake in marrying a Catholic man who apparently tries to be faithful to his religion by avoiding contraceptive practices, attending to his religious duties, and insisting on having his children trained in Catholic schools—all things which the Protestant wife does not believe in, and for which she has nothing but prejudiced contempt. It is strange that so many Catholics, even at an age when they should know better, fail to see the incompatibility of the Catholic with the Protestant conception of marriage and the impossibility of either a sincere Catholic or a convinced Protestant being truly happy in such a relationship.
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Source: Anonymous editorial, The Catholic Fortnightly Review 36, no. 11 (August 1929): 214.
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