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Jenna Marie Cooper

Our Sunday Visitor is a Catholic publisher serving millions of Catholics globally through its publishing and communication services. Jenna Marie Cooper, who holds a licentiate in canon law, is a consecrated virgin and a canonist whose column appears weekly at OSV News. Send your questions to CatholicQA@osv.com.

Question Corner: What are ‘non-sacramental’ marriages?

October 9, 2024
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner

A valid marriage is essentially a marriage where the wedding “worked,” and produced a true bond. In contrast, an attempted marriage where one of these necessary elements was absent would be considered an “invalid” or “null” marriage.

Question Corner: Why did God send Lucifer down to earth?

October 2, 2024
By Jenna Marie Cooper
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner

While the devil was cast out of God’s direct presence in heaven, this did not happen because God actively wanted Satan to have sway over his creatures.

Question Corner: Why do Catholics emphasize the body more than the blood of Jesus in Communion reception?

September 25, 2024
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Question Corner

It is the consistent traditional practice in Eastern Catholic churches to administer Communion under both kinds as a matter of course.

Question Corner: Are fairies and leprechauns demonic? And what happened to Barabbas?

September 18, 2024
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner

The church does not have any current official teaching on fairies or leprechauns. However, in traditional folklore, fairies and leprechauns were not the sweet and playful creatures that they tend to be in our modern depictions, and they have an association with pre-Christian European paganism.

Question Corner: Is the annulment process just a way to get around the church’s prohibition on divorce?

September 11, 2024
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life, Question Corner

In order to ensure that declarations of nullity are not simply “rubber stamped” or “cop outs,” the church has a specific process, carried out through the ministry of diocesan marriage tribunals, for investigating whether or not a marriage was invalid.

Question Corner: Who can wear a clerical collar and is it sinful to eliminate animal pests?

September 4, 2024
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner

Some seminaries attach the wearing of clerical clothes to a specific stage of formation called “candidacy,” but candidacy can also occur at different times in different places.

Question Corner: Should general absolution be a more regular practice?

August 28, 2024
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Worship & Sacraments

If a parish is able to have at least a weekly Sunday Mass, then there would likewise seem to be enough of a priestly presence in that area to allow penitents to have their individual confessions heard within a reasonable time frame.

Question Corner: Is spiritual communion the same as sacramental Communion?

August 21, 2024
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Worship & Sacraments

While a spiritual communion might be a praiseworthy aid to one’s spiritual life, it is not the same thing as a physical, sacramental Communion.

Question Corner: What is the church’s position on cremation?

August 19, 2024
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner

The Church permits cremation, provided that it does not demonstrate a denial of faith in the resurrection of the body.

Question Corner: What are the steps to receive Communion after divorce and remarriage?

August 7, 2024
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Question Corner

This can be a hard truth, but it is good to understand that this inability to receive Communion is part of a consistent theological rationale, as opposed to being something arbitrary.

Question Corner: What level of involvement in abortion carries the canonical penalty of excommunication?

July 31, 2024
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Respect Life

Looking at the crime of abortion specifically, one meaningful phrase in the relevant canon is that the penalty applies to those “who actually procure an abortion.” We can read “actually procure” as meaning: “directly and intentionally bringing about an abortion in a specific instance.”

Question Corner: Is a parish required to provide a screen and kneeler in the confessional?

July 17, 2024
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Worship & Sacraments

While the church expects confessions to be heard in a designated confessional under ordinary circumstances, there are times when it would be permissible to celebrate the sacrament someplace else.

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