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Question Corner: Must I believe in and follow apparitions?
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Question Corner: Must I believe in and follow apparitions?

Jenna Marie CooperFebruary 7, 20234 min read
No Catholic is obligated to follow any of the devotional “rules” accompanying a particular private revelation or to take on any of the prayers urged by the seers of an apparition.
Question Corner: Leaving early and the paschal candle
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Question Corner: Leaving early and the paschal candle

Jenna Marie CooperJanuary 30, 20234 min read
The final blessing is the official conclusion of the Mass, so — in that sense — once the final blessing is said, Mass is over and you may leave without technically missing any of the Mass.
Question Corner: Burning or burying sacramentals? And why use holy water?
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Question Corner: Burning or burying sacramentals? And why use holy water?

Jenna Marie CooperJanuary 25, 20234 min read
If you have sacramental objects which you no longer need but which are still in relatively good shape, the best and easiest thing to do is pass them along to someone else who could use them.
Question Corner: On Limbo and on silent prayer
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Question Corner: On Limbo and on silent prayer

Jenna Marie CooperJanuary 16, 20234 min read
Limbo is not included in our Creeds and is never mentioned in our current Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Questions: Holy days of obligation, vegetarians in Lent
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Questions: Holy days of obligation, vegetarians in Lent

Jenna Marie CooperJanuary 9, 20234 min read
It can be a beautiful practice to go to Mass on a feast that isn’t strictly obligatory simply to enter more deeply into the spirituality of our liturgical year.
Purgatory and the good thief/ Weddings during Lent
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Purgatory and the good thief/ Weddings during Lent

Father Kenneth DoyleMarch 15, 20223 min read
It has been a clear and consistent belief of the church, “All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven”
Remain a Catholic?/ Holy Communion with Alzheimer’s disease?
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Remain a Catholic?/ Holy Communion with Alzheimer’s disease?

Father Kenneth DoyleMarch 1, 20223 min read
Would it be a mortal sin if I left the church? I believe in Jesus as my savior, and I look forward to receiving the Eucharist. Am I a hypocrite in staying?
Will Sister Ita Ford be a saint?/ Refusing Communion
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Will Sister Ita Ford be a saint?/ Refusing Communion

Father Kenneth DoyleFebruary 23, 20223 min read
Sister Ita Ford was a Catholic Maryknoll Sister who grew up in Brooklyn. She served as a missionary in Bolivia, Chile and El Salvador, working primarily with the poor.
Why is cremation OK now?/ Bowing to a priest
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Why is cremation OK now?/ Bowing to a priest

Father Kenneth DoyleFebruary 9, 20223 min read
Cremation is now permitted for Catholics, so long as it is not chosen in denial of the Christian teaching on resurrection and the sacredness of the human body.
Duty of fraternal correction/ Why did Jesus say ‘tell no one’?
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Duty of fraternal correction/ Why did Jesus say ‘tell no one’?

Father Kenneth DoyleJanuary 25, 20223 min read
Is it not our duty to point out when a friend is committing a sin? Otherwise, if we don’t try to save the soul of a sinner, then we too can be found guilty.
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