Vatican’s Rules for Relics
Only relics that have been certified as authentic can be exposed for veneration by the faithful, according to a new Vatican instruction.
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Church Church Teaching Vatican
Church Teaching Your Letters
A Fertility Industry Without Ethics
It is difficult for the believer to discern what to do when medical terms and reproductive technologies such as IVF, surrogacy, sperm banks, cloning and embryo splitting, which purport to offer hope in the area of fertility, are not found or explained in the Bible.
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Church Teaching Death Ethics & Human Dignity Euthanasia
Pope: Care for the Dying Doesn’t Mean Resisting Death
People who are dying must be accompanied with the love of family members and the care of medical professionals, but there is no requirement that every means available must be used to prolong their lives, Pope Francis said.
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Church Church Teaching Mass Shackleton
Sunday Mass: Days of Obligation With No Priest?
If I cannot attend Sunday Mass at my own parish but only a Communion service, does this fulfil the Sunday obligation? Must I attend Mass at another parish?
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Church Church Teaching Sin in our Lives
Love the Sinner So Much, You Don’t Mention the Sin?
Is it against Christian charity to mention sin? Jesus didn’t shy away from talking about sin ever – however, unlike him we are sinful, fallen people. Are we to act charitably towards each other by not mentioning sin and judging others for sin?
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Christian Living Church Church Teaching God & Salvation Pope Francis
Pope: Get the Order of Salvation Right – Grace, Faith, Sanctification
The Pharisees and doctors of the law who claim salvation comes only from fulfilling God’s laws are not just biblical figures of the past, Pope Francis said.
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Christian Living Church Church Teaching
The Church Supports Organ Donation
The Church strongly believes that life is sacred, as the creation of God; we are stewards, not owners of our bodies. A person is a composite of body and soul; as long as there is a living body, even if mental capacity is reduced or absent, there is still a person present.
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Bible Church Church History Church Teaching
Purgatory, Apocrypha and the Canon of Scripture
2 Maccabees was written 40 years after the event by Jason of Cyrene (M2:23) and belongs to books known as deuterocanonical or apocrypha. They are not part of the inclusive canon of Greek scriptures.
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Christian Living Church Teaching Magliano
You are Not Pro-Peace if you are Not Pro-Life
If you promote the killing of the most innocent, the most defenceless human beings among us – our unborn little brothers and sisters – then you are waging war in the womb. You are not pro-peace.
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