Q: A friend’s daughter is getting married in a Protestant church. He told me that his priest told him that he could not walk his daughter down the aisle if it is to be a non-Catholic wedding. Is that true?
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A: No. Although the Vatican’s Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism does not address this directly, it does say this: “Members of other Churches or ecclesial Communities may be witnesses at the celebration of marriage in a Catholic church. Catholics may also be witnesses at marriages which are celebrated in other Churches or ecclesial Communities” (136).