Or follow the tenets of Catholicism and raise your children Catholic, not Hindu.
As a fellow convert from agnosticism to Catholicism, I understand some of where Vance comes from, but the biggest “no-no” is the fact that he is now Catholic, but he isn’t raising his kids Catholic.
Yes its so strange. I was once going to date a wonderful Catholic girl back in the day, but I after learning I have significant doctrinal disagreements and the fact that she wouldn't have been able to be a good Catholic due to me not wanting to raise my kids Catholic, we split before anything big. How he did this is quite confusing.
To be fair, he wasn’t Catholic when he got married and converted later so there is a potential excuse. I just can’t believe that a bishop/priest would have been ok with him not working to convert his wife and kids too. Maybe he is and we just don’t know? But the schizophrenia of having to go to a Hindu temple and do demon worship and also going to a Catholic Mass feels wild to me.
Should he have divorced his wife when he converted if she was unwilling to convert? At that point they already had at least one child.
If he divorces his wife, does he get custody, or her? If (when) his wife gets custody, which religion are his children likely to adopt: his or hers?
There are good reasons to not do what he did (if his conversion was genuine it must weigh heavily on him that he won't be with his wife when they die), but you don't get do-overs.
He could have actually been a Catholic or Christian and not marry outside his religion for the first thing.
Or follow the tenets of Catholicism and raise your children Catholic, not Hindu.
As a fellow convert from agnosticism to Catholicism, I understand some of where Vance comes from, but the biggest “no-no” is the fact that he is now Catholic, but he isn’t raising his kids Catholic.
Yes its so strange. I was once going to date a wonderful Catholic girl back in the day, but I after learning I have significant doctrinal disagreements and the fact that she wouldn't have been able to be a good Catholic due to me not wanting to raise my kids Catholic, we split before anything big. How he did this is quite confusing.
To be fair, he wasn’t Catholic when he got married and converted later so there is a potential excuse. I just can’t believe that a bishop/priest would have been ok with him not working to convert his wife and kids too. Maybe he is and we just don’t know? But the schizophrenia of having to go to a Hindu temple and do demon worship and also going to a Catholic Mass feels wild to me.
He wasn't a Catholic when he got married.
Should he have divorced his wife when he converted if she was unwilling to convert? At that point they already had at least one child.
If he divorces his wife, does he get custody, or her? If (when) his wife gets custody, which religion are his children likely to adopt: his or hers?
There are good reasons to not do what he did (if his conversion was genuine it must weigh heavily on him that he won't be with his wife when they die), but you don't get do-overs.