In addition, marriages with "difference in cult" are growing more and more, top of the list those with Muslims, with "problems and risks", such as "falling into religious indifferentism, separations, dependency on families, impositions that are often placed on women, isolation from one’s ethnic group, loss of identity, problems in raising one’s children". "The tradition of the Catholic Church reads the note gives priority to marriages between Catholics, not just with a view to preserving and handing down the family’s faith, but above all in the interest of the married community itself. However, for right and appropriate reasons, it authorises mixed marriages and marriages with differences in cult, provided the bride and groom state they are willing to stay away from the danger of abandoning their faith and commit themselves to do all they can for their children to be baptised and raised in the Catholic Church". During the meeting, mgr. André Dupuy, apostolic nuncio to the European union, submitted a report on the evolution of the family in Europe 2006, about to be published: "worrying findings" include the fall in population in Europe, the increase in the number of abortions (one every 30 seconds), the fall in the number of marriages, the rise in the number of divorces.
