USCC News Release: Anglican/Catholic Study Commission Issues Its Report on the Theology of Marriage (1976)

USCC News Release: Anglican/Catholic Study Commission Issues Its Report on the Theology of Marriage by William Ryan, June 3, 1976

WASHINGTON--A high level Roman Catholic-Anglican Commission studying mixed marriages has recommended changes in the Catholic Church discipline which generally requires that marriages between members of the two churches take place in the presence of a Catholic priest and that the Catholic party make a promise to have the children bap­tized and brought up in the Catholic Church.

The Commission reported that it found "no fundamental difference of doctrine between the two Churches, as regards what marriage of its nature is or the ends which it is ordained to serve." It also raised the question of whether the contrast in the churches• approaches to the matter of the indissolubility of marriage is as "clear-cut" as it once seemed.

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