What are the Duties of a Godparent?
Question: Exactly what duties do godparents have towards their godchildren nowadays? Answer: Imagine you are a second-century Christian and a […]
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Church Church Teaching Demons Question & Answer
My Flat is Haunted: Call the Exorcist?
Question: I believe our flat’s ceiling is spooked. We hear inexplicable footsteps, cupboard doors sounding like they are being opened,
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May Feeding Tubes Be Pulled If I’m Brain-Dead?
Question: The Catholic Church strictly forbids euthanasia, that is, the intentional ending of a life at the request of a
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Bishops Church Church Teaching Question & Answer
Can Anyone Become a Cardinal?
Question: I wonder if you could settle a dispute. A friend, also a Catholic, claims that any baptised Catholic can
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The Language of the Heart
Stephen Clarke, Manila, Philippines – A few years ago my dad surprised me with a story I had not heard.
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Is There a Dress Code for Mass?
Especially during the summer months, people come to church looking like they are going to the beach and women are baring their shoulders. Isn’t there some kind of official dress code for Mass in the Church?
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Speaking in Tongues Made Clear
At Pentecost the Church remembers how the Holy Spirit descended on the assembled apostles and gave them the gift of tongues, so that when they preached immediately afterwards, they could be understood by foreign people
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Church Church Teaching Mary Question & Answer Shackleton
Do we have to believe in Marian apparitions?
Do Jesus, Mary and saints really appear to people? My parish priest says he does not believe so. Paragraph 67
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Church Teaching Question & Answer Sacraments Shackleton
Can Deacons Anoint the Sick?
During a healing service at a parish in a South African diocese, the deacon invited and anointed those present with the sacred oil of the sick. This was distressing because the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Code of Canon Law expressly forbid anyone but a valid priest or bishop from anointing in this way?
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