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We have been married for more than 20 years. He's Catholic, I'm Protestant. We only attended church a few times with his parents and then again when we were church shopping for our wedding. (We found a Protestant one that married us -- we didn't return after the wedding.) He was a regular churchgoer through high school though. But he didn't care for any of the church's stance on women's issues, etc. And then all the church scandals with priests really put him off Catholicism.

After all these many years of not attending church, we lucked into a Protestant one that's a perfect fit for both of us! He loves it there, and recently joined. It's so great to be happy at the same church together. I didn't think it would actually ever happen.

Sounds like he already left it 20 years ago.

Agree. Sounds like he wasn't very into it in the first place. My condolences to you both. I'll say some Hail Marys for you.

Is that a Christian thing to do for someone who is celebrating her husband leaving the Catholic church?

It is always a Christian thing to say Hail Marys for anyone. Mary was the mother of Christ, the very first Christian, so He loves it when people love His mother and go to Him through her.

Jesus was born a Jew and died a Jew -- it even says so in the Bible -- "King of the Jews" was written at the foot of his Cross.

As an aside, you realize Jesus didn't make that sign for himself, right?

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We have been married for more than 20 years. He's Catholic, I'm Protestant. We only attended church a few times with his parents and then again when we were church shopping for our wedding. (We found a Protestant one that married us -- we didn't return after the wedding.) He was a regular churchgoer through high school though. But he didn't care for any of the church's stance on women's issues, etc. And then all the church scandals with priests really put him off Catholicism.

After all these many years of not attending church, we lucked into a Protestant one that's a perfect fit for both of us! He loves it there, and recently joined. It's so great to be happy at the same church together. I didn't think it would actually ever happen.

Sounds like he already left it 20 years ago.

Agree. Sounds like he wasn't very into it in the first place. My condolences to you both. I'll say some Hail Marys for you.

Is that a Christian thing to do for someone who is celebrating her husband leaving the Catholic church?

It is always a Christian thing to say Hail Marys for anyone. Mary was the mother of Christ, the very first Christian, so He loves it when people love His mother and go to Him through her.

Jesus was born a Jew and died a Jew -- it even says so in the Bible -- "King of the Jews" was written at the foot of his Cross.

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Anonymous wrote:Why not the title "Yay! My husband has converted to my religion!"?

Otherwise, it sounds like just another post by the rabidly anti-Catholic troll.

so, here in America, it's OK to be accepting of all religions, even though many contradict each other, but it's not ok to to be happy when a wife is pleased that her husband prefers her religion.

rules are rules. All religions are good. Having no religion is bad. No religion is better than any other. This is America, where you can believe anything you want - as long as you believe something and you never imply anything negative about the religions you don't believe in.

I have no problem with him preferring her religion to his own. Especially if it going to improve his spiritual life. Better a good Protestant than a bad Catholic. My concern is why the negative lede rather than a positive one. OP could have written "DH and I finally share a spiritual home!"

Perhaps there's a market in writing ecumenically acceptable headlines on DCUM.

Could be that OP is not "spiritual" so your proposed headline wouldn't work well for the person who wrote it.

Maybe she meant what she said and doesn't care if it's completely socially acceptable to people of all religions.

Perhaps you are sock-puppeting and you *are* the OP.

If you think that, report the post and the moderator can verify -- or not.

This beats unfounded accusations, but makes it more difficult to ignore the basic message of the post.

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Anonymous wrote:Why not the title "Yay! My husband has converted to my religion!"?

Otherwise, it sounds like just another post by the rabidly anti-Catholic troll.

so, here in America, it's OK to be accepting of all religions, even though many contradict each other, but it's not ok to to be happy when a wife is pleased that her husband prefers her religion.

rules are rules. All religions are good. Having no religion is bad. No religion is better than any other. This is America, where you can believe anything you want - as long as you believe something and you never imply anything negative about the religions you don't believe in.

I have no problem with him preferring her religion to his own. Especially if it going to improve his spiritual life. Better a good Protestant than a bad Catholic. My concern is why the negative lede rather than a positive one. OP could have written "DH and I finally share a spiritual home!"

Perhaps there's a market in writing ecumenically acceptable headlines on DCUM.

Could be that OP is not "spiritual" so your proposed headline wouldn't work well for the person who wrote it.

Maybe she meant what she said and doesn't care if it's completely socially acceptable to people of all religions.

Perhaps you are sock-puppeting and you *are* the OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Why not the title "Yay! My husband has converted to my religion!"?

Otherwise, it sounds like just another post by the rabidly anti-Catholic troll.

so, here in America, it's OK to be accepting of all religions, even though many contradict each other, but it's not ok to to be happy when a wife is pleased that her husband prefers her religion.

rules are rules. All religions are good. Having no religion is bad. No religion is better than any other. This is America, where you can believe anything you want - as long as you believe something and you never imply anything negative about the religions you don't believe in.

I have no problem with him preferring her religion to his own. Especially if it going to improve his spiritual life. Better a good Protestant than a bad Catholic. My concern is why the negative lede rather than a positive one. OP could have written "DH and I finally share a spiritual home!"

Perhaps there's a market in writing ecumenically acceptable headlines on DCUM.

Could be that OP is not "spiritual" so your proposed headline wouldn't work well for the person who wrote it.

Maybe she meant what she said and doesn't care if it's completely socially acceptable to people of all religions.

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the PP who said that the DH seems to have left along time ago. He wasn't practicing Catholicism anyway. It's like the 19 year old sophomores who drop out of public HS --it's just a formality.

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We have been married for more than 20 years. He's Catholic, I'm Protestant. We only attended church a few times with his parents and then again when we were church shopping for our wedding. (We found a Protestant one that married us -- we didn't return after the wedding.) He was a regular churchgoer through high school though. But he didn't care for any of the church's stance on women's issues, etc. And then all the church scandals with priests really put him off Catholicism.

After all these many years of not attending church, we lucked into a Protestant one that's a perfect fit for both of us! He loves it there, and recently joined. It's so great to be happy at the same church together. I didn't think it would actually ever happen.

Sounds like he already left it 20 years ago.

Agree. Sounds like he wasn't very into it in the first place. My condolences to you both. I'll say some Hail Marys for you.

Is that a Christian thing to do for someone who is celebrating her husband leaving the Catholic church?

It is always a Christian thing to say Hail Marys for anyone. Mary was the mother of Christ, the very first Christian, so He loves it when people love His mother and go to Him through her.

I agree with the PP who said that the DH seems to have left along time ago. He wasn't practicing Catholicism anyway. It's like the 19 year old sophomores who drop out of public HS --it's just a formality.

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We have been married for more than 20 years. He's Catholic, I'm Protestant. We only attended church a few times with his parents and then again when we were church shopping for our wedding. (We found a Protestant one that married us -- we didn't return after the wedding.) He was a regular churchgoer through high school though. But he didn't care for any of the church's stance on women's issues, etc. And then all the church scandals with priests really put him off Catholicism.

After all these many years of not attending church, we lucked into a Protestant one that's a perfect fit for both of us! He loves it there, and recently joined. It's so great to be happy at the same church together. I didn't think it would actually ever happen.

Sounds like he already left it 20 years ago.

Agree. Sounds like he wasn't very into it in the first place. My condolences to you both. I'll say some Hail Marys for you.

Is that a Christian thing to do for someone who is celebrating her husband leaving the Catholic church?

Anonymous wrote:OP is juvenile. "Yay, I won!" That's so Christian of you.

PS-- The Church doesn't have the monopoly on abuse. And you might want to look into the amount of charity it is involved in.

So if I sexually assault someone, I can make up for it by giving money to a worthy cause?

Anonymous wrote:OP is juvenile. "Yay, I won!" That's so Christian of you.

PS-- The Church doesn't have the monopoly on abuse. And you might want to look into the amount of charity it is involved in.

No one seems to pay much attention to the broad complicity of Hasidic rabbis in sexual assault and sexual abuse of minors in their community.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/nyregion/for-ultra-orthodox-in-child-sex-abuse-cases-prosecutor-has-different-rules.html?_r=0

An influential rabbi came last summer to the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, with a message: his ultra-Orthodox advocacy group was instructing adherent Jews that they could report allegations of child sexual abuse to district attorneys or the police only if a rabbi first determined that the suspicions were credible.
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Many of the rabbis consider sexual abuse accusations to be community matters best handled by rabbinical authorities, who often do not report their conclusions to the police.

http://westchester.news12.com/news/new-square-sex-abuse-case-of-rabbi-moshe-taubenfeld-adjourned-for-two-months-1.6892669

Activists showed up at the first public court appearance last night of Rabbi Moshe Taubenfeld. A young New Square man claims the highly regarded rabbi and mentor sexually abused him for five years after he went to him for solace after Sept. 11. The allegations reignited claims that other sexual abuse cases have been covered up.
"It's clear that many victims of child molestation in New Square are getting angry at the corruption that allows child molestation to continue," says Rabbi Noson-Leiter, of Monsey. Noson-Leiter attended the hearing with other activists who say they want to make sure justice gets served for the alleged victim.