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May 18th, 2008
In the language of the Bible, a prophet is someone who speaks a message from God. Sometimes the message is addressed to the king or some prominent person. At other times it's meant for the ...
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May 18th, 2008
I wish I could have sat in on your discussion. I might then be able to respond to your question more clearly. Revelation is not so much a set of propositions or a list of ...
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May 18th, 2008
The rosary is not the most important Catholic prayer--that "honor" belongs to the Eucharist--but it has been a popular and widespread devotion among Catholics from the Middle Ages until the present day.
Jesus would not ...
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May 18th, 2008
Catholics believe that suicide is a serious evil in and of itself. It's a sin against God, who is the author of all life, against the love of one's own self as a creation of ...
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May 18th, 2008
Thanks for your question to Busted Halo. Whether you sinned or not depends on whether you intended to do evil or turn away from God by visiting a psychic. You don't indicate that this was ...
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May 18th, 2008
The term used for lay ministers of the eucharist is not "exceptional" but "extraordinary." "Ordinary" is the Church's term for someone who is ordained. For example, a bishop is often called an "ordinary" because he ...
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May 18th, 2008
Transubstantiation is a teaching of the Church that developed from the 10th the 13th century as a way of explaining how the bread and wine that we receive at Mass are no longer bread and ...
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May 18th, 2008
All things being equal, the Church would prefer that Catholics marry Catholics. Shared religious beliefs and practices are important factors in establishing a closer union with another person. Catholics also see marriage between Catholics as ...
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May 18th, 2008
How strictly must we obey laws that don't seem to make sense and impede the way we want to live our lives? Does a Christian need to follow the law literally, as an expression of God's will over temporal matters through human legislators?
Jesus and Paul provide some example here. Both seem to have been "law-abiding citizens" in most respects. Jesus made exceptions which involved common sense (the disciples picking and eating grain because they were hungry on ...
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May 18th, 2008
As many Catholics do, I have some serious disagreements with the Catholic church's teachings. I joke that "I'm a bad Catholic but obviously still identify as a Catholic. How can I reconcile issues over things like abortion, acceptance of other religions, gays/females as priests.
The first big conflict in the Church was over whether to admit Gentiles to baptism, without binding them to practice all the laws of Moses, and whether Jewish Christians could then associate with them as ...
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