Jenna Marie Cooper

The short answer to your question is that anything other than a normal Catholic Mass would not fulfill one’s Sunday obligation.

While the law is strict about avoiding any semblance of commercializing Mass intentions, it’s just as strict about ensuring that the faithful’s intentions in this context are respected as a matter of basic justice.

The reason why women can’t be ordained priests is because of the pattern set by Jesus himself while he walked the earth.

Catholics believe in a state called purgatory, which is a place of purification specifically in preparation for heaven.

We could describe the beginning of the Book of Genesis as a sort of “theological history,” because it tells us, in narrative form, some real and important things about the nature of God and his relationship to creation.

When Jesus was “resurrected” in the proper sense of the term, he moved totally beyond death and could never die again.

When we confess our sins to a priest in the sacrament of penance, we can know with confidence that our sins are forgiven, because of Jesus’ own words.