Zderzenie katolickiej i muzułmańskiej wizji małżeństwa – podstawowe trudności
The Clash between the Catholic and the Muslim Vision of Marriage – Fundamental Difficulties

Summary/Abstract: The article juxtaposes and contrasts the essence of marriage as understood by the Catho- lic Church and the Muslim concept of a relationship between a woman and a man. Its objective is to demonstrate whether it is possible to enter matrimony which would be fully compatible with canon law and Muslim law and to present the di culties that tend to arise in such marriages. It argues that a Muslim may relate most of the attributes and objectivestaught by the Catholic Church to the marriage bond, with the exception of honoring baptism and Catholic upbringing of his children. Muslim law stipulates that a Muslim’s children must be brought up in the faith of their father and urges the father to prevent the Christian mother from exercising any religious in uence over their children. Although the Christian mother may obtain dispensation from the impediment of di erent faiths by, among other things, doing her best to baptize her children and to bring them up in her faith, in practice this is impossible because of the father’s legal obligation.

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