the days when anyone who wanted to marry a Catholic had to sign an oath confirming they would bring the children up in the Catholic way.

 

I can't remember when they abolished that practice, but in 1954 my Brother-in-Law had to sign the declaration before marrying my sister.

 

I guess if one had to sign something like that then you had to be pretty sure about what you were getting yourself into LOL

 

Actually, now I come to think about it my Father secretly went to Catachism classes and converted to Catholicism before asking my Mother to marry him.  That would have been in the late 1920s I guess.

 

We live in different times now ....