Catholism and hinduism

Magdala · #1 Sep 29, '11, 8:35 pm

I have a few questions hope you can help me out with them please. These questions are about a catholic husband and his Hindu wife.

After the couple got married the bride moved in with her husband in his home that he grew up with his late parents. In this home there was already bibles hymn books rosaries crucifix and other catholic images. The bride however brought over her stuff from her religion which included the various idols and images.

(1) Is this acceptable by the church and God and is it the correct thing to do having mixed symbols in the same home.?? In my opinion no because the commandment says you should have no other God's but me. But is there an exception for this in the catholic church

(2) The Wife tells(more like demands) her husband when she is fasting for her religious observances she wants no meat in the house not to be cooked or even brought in. Your advice and opinion on this please.

(3) She did her religious work in the home about 2 years after the marriage. He sat with her and took part. Was that the right thing for him to do and is that acceptable by the Catholic church?

(4) They have a 3 year old daughter that was already baptised Catholic but however for some slack reason the father still allowed the mother to take the child to a pandit(their priest) and open some one of their religious books and give her a name. Is this also the right thing and acceptable by the catholic church?? Your advice and opinions on this too please

(5) My last question to you. The father takes the 3 year old to catholic masses sometimes when he goes. But at the same time he also allows her mother and maternal Grandma to take the child to their Hindu place of worship temple(mandir). Is he being too slack? Will this child eventually follow Hinduism or no religion at all when she gets older because of a possibility she might get confused. Your advice and opinions please?

jerry_joseph · #2 Sep 30, '11, 12:00 am

It is the duty of the father of the child to provide teachings of christ. Create a christian devotional atmosphere in the house. Give more importance to family prayers, rosaries, visiting shrines , charismatic retreat centers,etc. In fact it will attract this non catholic mother and her family to catholicism. He should view this as a golden opportunity to teach the teachings of christ to this non catholic family.

In my opinion marriage with non christian is not ideal. But what happened is happened. Look at the life of St Augustin . His father is a pagan and His mother is a christian. It is through the prayers and life of his mother St Monica that he became attracted to christianity.

If father of the this kid is not interested in providing him catholic faith, he will be responsible for the loss of the Soul of that Child before God.

We cannot blame the mother of that kid and her family, from their side they are teaching their kid what they believes. Also these pandits (brahmins ) are very deeply religious persons in india comparing to other castes in india.

Also we should notice that Sr Nirmala , the successor of mother theresa was a hindu brahmin and later attracted to roman catholicism because of the life of mother theresa.

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Siste...-town-463.html

I will give you one link. It is a website of a catholic charismatic lay men group providing life of jesus and new testament in the form of cartoons for kids.

www.jesuswonder.com

You can down load the sample clips from this site or you can order DVD's from them. Really it will be a great help to teach that kid about life of Jesus.