# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S205
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PARISH EDUCATION 205

ments, and have its actions and the final manuscripts approved
by the Board of Parish Education.

2. Authors and consultants shall be selected and appointed by
the Board of Parish Education upon recommendation of the com-
mittee, Each of the catechisms shall have a single author, but
each author shall have several consultants, preferably chosen from
among teachers and pastors working on the grade level for which
the author is writing.

Action: This resolution was adopted.

Statement on Interfaith or Mixed Marriages
RESOLUTION 11, COMMITTEE 4

Memorial 201, page 272, Reports and Memorials

Wuereas, The 1953 synodical convention requested the Family
Life Committee of the Board of Parish Education to submit a state-
ment for the guidance of pastors and congregations with regard to
interfaith or mixed marriages; and

Wuereas, The number of mixed marriages is rising and result-
ing in an alarming increase in the number of Lutheran parties to
such marriages who fall away from their church, and whose chil-
dren are not being instructed in the Lutheran faith; therefore be it

Resolved,
a) That the Statement on Interfaith or Mixed Marriages (Re-

ports and Memorials, pp. 262—272) be adopted with the following
revisions:

1. P. 264, line 13: “Roman Catholic doctrine of good works”
changed to “Roman Catholic doctrine regarding good works.”

2. P. 265, No. 3, line 5: “peaceful and harmonious coexistence”
changed to “peace and harmony.”

3. P. 266, No.4, line 20: “From the foregoing it is therefore
obvious that the spiritual unity between the married partners and
the Christian training of children usually will suffer serious lim-
itations in a marriage between a Christian and a non-Christian.”
Changed to “From the foregoing it is obvious that in a marriage
between a Lutheran and a non-Christian there can be no spiritual
unity between the married partners, and the Christian training of
the children usually will suffer serious limitations.”

4, P. 268, line 4: “falling in love with a Roman Catholic”
changed to “ ‘falling in love’ with a Roman Catholic or with any
other person with whom it would be impossible or very difficult
to achieve spiritual unity.”

5. P. 268, No.6, line 21: “the Roman Catholic marriage oath”
changed to “this agreement.”