text: Sr. Rose says that the Catholic Church requires the non-Catholic spouse in a mixed religion marriage to sign a promise to raise children as Catholics. That used to be true. I remember as a parish priest in Brooklyn asking people to do just that. I'm sure there was considerable duplicity as well as angry, suppressed ill feeling toward the Church. Fortunately, somewhere along the road to wisdom, the regulation was changed. Now, the Catholic spouse is asked to do all that he/she can to raise the child as a Catholic. Nothing is asked of the non-Catholic, and no mendacity takes place in the rectory office.