Quoting: iwona, Post #45
Do you have to convert completely to Catholic?
It shouldn’t be too hard to convert, as I was never baptised [we don’t do christening of the baby, when you are ready to commit fully to god you are baptised].
The easiest way is for me and GF to marry into my church, then go to Poland to the priest and explain we have committed a sin by marrying out of the Catholic Church, we then go through another ceremony where we accept that our marriage is null in the eyes of the Catholic church and the Church blesses the marriage as a Catholic marriage, on the understanding that any children born to us will be Catholic.
That’s how my preacher explained it to me anyway, he hasn’t got any issues with me marrying a Catholic as long as I make it work and honour God- and he’s worried that denying my belief [Jesus was mortal/ no Holy Trinity] will be difficult for me to do- and if I don’t then the Catholic Church won’t bless the marriage.
GF doesn’t much care as long as she gets married in a Catholic Church in Poland- because to her there’s only 1 church and never mind all this Non- Conformist ******** stupid Welshman sonny me lad.
I don’t need a church to honour God, so really it’s the Catholic church that has an issue with me rather than I with them.