If two religiously lukewarm people marry, formal religion will probably not influence that marriage significantly. The Catholic Church encourages its members to marry other Catholics. Because of the spouse s anticipated religious example and assistance within the marriage and with the religious education of children. Some mixed marriages work out much better than the marriage of lukewarm Catholics. Both partners in the mixed marriage may take their religion seriously enough to face their differences and how those will influence this marriage.
Marriage is the most beautiful, fundamental and complex human relationship.
Facing religious differences now may strengthen your relationship tremendously or reveal a problem bound to arise later. Now is the best time to address this issue. Since the first century, Christians have been making pilgrimages to the land where Jesus lived. St. Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine, made a famous pilgrimage in the fourth century, trying to identify where Jesus was born, died and was buried. For a short time after 1199 when the crusaders captured Jerusalem and nearby territory, visiting these sites was easier.