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Question Corner: Is the parish administrator the same thing as a pastor?
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Question Corner: Is the parish administrator the same thing as a pastor?

Jenna Marie CooperJune 12, 20254 min read
“Parish administrator” is distinct from the office of pastor, but this distinction probably will not make much of a practical difference in your day-to-day experience of parish life.
Question Corner: Are Jewish marriages valid to the Catholic Church?
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Question Corner: Are Jewish marriages valid to the Catholic Church?

Jenna Marie CooperJune 4, 20254 min read
Although we might tend to use different vocabulary in pastoral contexts, as Catholics we believe that marriage is at its core an exchange of consent, which is indeed a “contract” in the broad sense of the term.
Question Corner: When is it appropriate to say the St. Michael Prayer following the Mass?
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Question Corner: When is it appropriate to say the St. Michael Prayer following the Mass?

Jenna Marie CooperMay 29, 20254 min read
Though the St. Michael prayer is no longer mandated in our post-Vatican II Mass, it can still be a beautiful and spiritually beneficial custom to pray it after the final blessing as a community.
Question Corner: Are the Gospels made up, nonhistorical accounts?
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Question Corner: Are the Gospels made up, nonhistorical accounts?

Jenna Marie CooperMay 21, 20254 min read
It seems unlikely that these men would have been willing to suffer so intensely and give up so much if they themselves did not sincerely believe in the truth of what they were professing. Reasoning it out, what would have been the Apostles’ motivation for making up a new religion if it meant that they had everything to lose but nothing in this world to gain?
Question Corner: Does a married person need their marriage blessed or ‘convalidated’ once they become Catholic?
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Question Corner: Does a married person need their marriage blessed or ‘convalidated’ once they become Catholic?

Jenna Marie CooperMay 15, 20254 min read
A person does not need to be Catholic or even Christian to have a valid marriage, provided that in their matrimonial consent they committed themselves to a union that would broadly match our Catholic understanding of marriage: namely, as a permanent, faithful, and exclusive union ordered fundamentally towards children and family life.
Question Corner: Without a pope, how do we fulfill the indulgence requirement of praying for the pope’s intentions?
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Question Corner: Without a pope, how do we fulfill the indulgence requirement of praying for the pope’s intentions?

Jenna Marie CooperMay 7, 20254 min read
The general understanding among canon lawyers is that indulgences can still be earned during an “interregnum period” — meaning, during the period between the death or resignation of a pope and the election of his successor — because there does not need to be a reigning pope in order for the faithful to pray for the pope’s intentions.
Question Corner: What are my Easter duties?
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Question Corner: What are my Easter duties?

Jenna Marie CooperApril 30, 20254 min read
In broad terms, “the Easter duty” usually refers to a fully initiated Catholic’s obligation to make a good sacramental confession and receive holy Communion every year around the time of Easter.
Question Corner: How do God’s will and the Holy Spirit play a role in a conclave?
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Question Corner: How do God’s will and the Holy Spirit play a role in a conclave?

Jenna Marie CooperApril 24, 20254 min read
The solitude and isolation of the conclave is meant to foster almost a retreat-like atmosphere, which should make it easier for cardinals to listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.
Question Corner: Can my friend’s annulment case be sped up so she can enter the church at Easter?
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Question Corner: Can my friend’s annulment case be sped up so she can enter the church at Easter?

Jenna Marie CooperApril 16, 20254 min read
We should keep in mind that the church sees the process of Christian initiation as a spiritual journey, not as an academic year with a deadline for “graduation.”
Question Corner: Why do we need confession if Jesus’ death cleansed us from our sins?
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Question Corner: Why do we need confession if Jesus’ death cleansed us from our sins?

Jenna Marie CooperApril 9, 20254 min read
We know that God is totally loving and merciful, and is always ready to forgive. And this is why Jesus left the church with the sacrament of penance, to provide a means for reconciliation after post-baptismal sins.
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