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		<title>Can Deacons Anoint the Sick?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[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?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Communion: Who May Come Up?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Question: At a funeral service, the celebrant stated that practising Catholics could receive Communion, but non-practising Catholics could not. He [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Are Anglican Confirmations Valid?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Shackleton]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Catholic boy I know was confirmed in an Anglican church. Was this a valid confirmation? Didn&#8217;t  Pope Leo XIII [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hygienic Communion</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Shackleton]]></dc:creator>
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