Depends on how important your religion is to you. You could raise the child to know about both religions, but it would take an extraordinary amount of skill to not go ahead and try to get them to beleive that YOUR religion is the RIGHT one, you know? Talk ALL of this through before you have kids...how you want them raised, etc. It might save you alot of tears later on. ~+~

True practicing Muslims are intolerant of all other religions. Monotheistic religions like being Catholic or Jewish are seen higher in their eyes than a polytheistic religion like Hinduism. His family will never accept you until you convert. If you have any kids, they will demand they be raised under Islam

I would never get involved with a person from another religion. That would make life too tough on me if I did. Not familiar with RC or Muslim beliefs so you probably should consult the priest and the minister or whatever they call a holy man in Muslim.

This is a really stupid question. Yeah, a kid can be muslim and Catholic at the same time. If you marry him, just stop being a Catholic and become a muslim and be done with it.

Civil ceremony will do the job for you guys. Children... they better be Buddhists - because this is the only religion, that unconditionally accepts and respects all the other confessions.

Muslim is a very imposing religion, I don't think he or his family will accept your religion, you will have to become a muslin so will the children when any. Be really sure you are ready to embrace life as a muslin wife before you decide to bring up kids. Remember in a muslin country the father/men have all the custodian rights on the kids.

G'day Anonymous, Thank you for your question. I would discuss it with your priest and his imam. It would be a lot more difficult than if you both came from different forms of Christianity but it could possibly be done. Regards

It can be done depending on you both...but I can see that it will bring up many issues. Rasing the kids with both religions it's hard too..many confusions. I suggest that you talk it over..But in Islam you must convert in order to marry...that's to the practicing muslim some non-practicing don't even know that. Not judging you or him but in Islam he's not suppose to be dating. You might be in Love now and everything looks so great but then when you get married your gonna find it difficult so to servive. Let him know what you want and know what he wants I hope that you guys will work it out and things go great and keep me posted on what happens if u don't mind :)

What you are contemplating, from the persepctive of someone who has done a lot of counselling, is a potential disaster. According to Muslim belief, the children must be raised as Muslims. Strictly, you could still practice Catholicism, but you would have no right to teach it to your children. You have to work out how much these things mean to you. Any marriage counsellor will tell you that the most argued over things in any marriage are money, family and religion. No matter how much "in love" you are now, and how much you want to please each other NOW, you will find that the differences between you will cause BIG problems. Even if you get through the marriage (and it sounds like that is going to be a big enough problem), when the children come, it will come to a head. I tell you this from experience. Answer this: how much does your faith mean to you? How much does his faith mean to him? If they are important, and they sound like they are, then how can you compromise on such an important thing and still be true to yourself...without feeling....well....compromised. Someone has to give way. And that person is going to resent it down the track. I hate to say it, but if you are not going to agree on the most important things- and beliefs are the most important things you have- how can you expect to make the marriage work? I know it sounds harsh, but, as I said, I talk from experience. I have seen marriages fall apart later when compromises were made earlier. You really need professional counselling on this. Please get some.

the first part of your question is perhaps. you should be warned that hardcore muslim's do not accept anything other than virgins and have been known to walk out on wives after learning otherwise! the second part is not really, muslims are very deeply religous and do NOT practice anything but their own religion

If you are RC you have to promise to raise your kids RC. You can choose to break that promise if you want, but you'll have to at least make the promise before you get married. Have you explained all that Pre Cana fun stuff to him yet?

One can be either Catholic or Muslim, never under any circumstances both. Catholics believe in the Holy Trinity and that Jesus is the Son of God. Muslims believe that "God has no wife, so how can He have a Son?" Islam and Catholicism are mutually exclusive religions. If you believe in one, by definition you have to disbelieve in the other.

You could have a civil ceremony to make it a legal marriage. Then out of respect for each other's religious views, have two additional ceremonies so that both of you will feel married according to your religious faiths and for your families. The question is how fundamentalist are either of you in your faith? If you are both fundamenalists, you are in for a rough ride, especially when it comes to children. Would he expect you to wear a burka? Would you expect him to be baptized? You really need to discuss these things and get some pre-marital counselling.

There are two seperate issues here. 1) How YOU choose to celebrate your union and raise your children 2) How the two respective religions will recognize and deal with your choices. YOU have the choice to celebrate your marriage anywhich way you wish, but you will not have the blessing of either of these two faiths. YOU have the choice to raise your children embracing both religions, but they will not be considered Catholic by the church nor Muslim by Quran. More frighteningly, your children will be considered your husbands PROPERTY by virtue of Islam, no matter how you choose to raise them. You can not convince or negotiate between these two faiths. If you chose to embrace both, you will have to go it alone, have a civil ceremony (you can include traditions from both faiths, but neither will "recognize" it) and raise your kids with an appreciation for both faiths but never really committing to either. Be careful, too - because Islam is more than a religion. It has it's own set of laws (Sharia Law) that are actually recognized as LAW in many Muslim countries. They couldn't care less that you are Catholic and raised your children that way.

This is only a issue if you make it a issue. Just have two weddings and only tell those who need to know. I say why not, it's free country to as you wish....

You would have to talk to your priest but I don't think you can get married in the Church. His is probably the same unless you convert to being a Muslim. The way the children are raised is up to both of you.

when i got married it was hard enough for me and my husband coming from two different christian denominations. i couldn't imagine coming from a different religion entirely. have you honestly considered how crazy hard this will be for you? i know your in love and i'm not trying to be negative, i'm trying to be honest. i know that in order to get married in a catholic church you have to agree to raise your kids catholic... but the other mate still has to be christian i'm pretty sure... at least they let my relative marry his wife and he was lutheran, she catholic. and it is unlikely that either of your families will truly accept the other unless they are very, very tolerant (which is unlikely judging by the religions-no offense). why don't you do an outdoor civil ceremony and have a reading by the priest & imam? most tolerant priests will do that for homosexual wedding ceremonies, i don't see why they wouldn't do it for yours. but before that, you need to get a lot of counseling done. and talk honestly to each other about what you really expect of the other. thats going to be a huge thing...