Just for kicks and giggles I asked some friends of mine on another board if they'd ever heard anything about the Church banning interracial marriages, or teaching against. I received two responses. One person simply said 'Beats me, I've never heard of such a thing' LOL! Which are my sentiments exactly.
Someone else said this:
Church teaching on this matter.
Michelle
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I hope this helps clear up any misinformation given in this thread about the CatholicI just searched religioustolerance.org and found nothing on Catholics banning interracial marriage. The accuser might be confused though, I did get a hit on Bob Jones Univ. and interracial marriage on the same page as the Pope asking for forgiveness for past problems. You can see the page here:
www.religioustolerance.or..._00mar.htm
As far as I know, the Catholic Church has never banned interraical marriage. If She did, you would have heard about it on the standard list of complaints on anti-Catholic boards all over the net.
It would be a silly idea for the universal Church to do so and certainly was not the case when the Spanish colonized the Americas.
Update: Here is another hit with Bob Jones, note that Catholic shows up on the page too:
www.religioustolerance.or..._choi2.htm
The search page: search.freefind.com/find....g=en&fr=10
Gives this misleading description:
12. Charitable choice: Governments funding religious groups
about Roman Catholicism. Until recently, the university had forbidden interracial dating among their students. Edwards postulated the startup of a charitable choice program at a church
[url="http://www.religioustolerance.or..._choi2.htm"]www.religioustolerance.or..._choi2.htm [/url]
Church teaching on this matter.
Michelle
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