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May 18th, 2008
Devotion to Mary goes back a long way in the Catholic church. But Catholics do not believe that Mary is divine and we don't pray to Mary. God, made flesh in Jesus and present in ... |
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May 18th, 2008
The Immaculate Conception is a teaching of the church that Mary, the Mother of Jesus, was preserved from original sin from the moment of her conception. This is not a teaching found in the New ... |
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May 18th, 2008
The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe celebrates an appearance of the Virgin Mary at Tepayac, a hill northwest of Mexico City. For evidence we have both a story and a painting.
The story tells ... |
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May 18th, 2008
Catholics differ from some Christian Churches which accept the Scripture as the only source of God's revelation. Catholics have a strong belief in the truth of Scripture, but we also believe in tradition as a ... |
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May 18th, 2008
My husband and I got married in a civil ceremony. We always knew we were going to do it in a Catholic ceremony though. Nobody knows but us. We already have a marriage license obviously, what sort of certificate does the priest need to sign? We dont want him to know either....is there any way to keep it a secret and pretend we were never married through the courts? Thank you for sending your question to "Ask Fr. Joe."
First of all, let me say that there will be no problem with your getting your married "validated" in the Catholic Church. I'm assuming ... |
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May 18th, 2008
I'm assuming from your note that you were divorced and have remarried without receiving an annulment of your first marriage from the Church court. If so, your priest is following the practice of the Church ... |
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May 18th, 2008
What the texts of the Bible reveal is a gradual evolution toward an appreciation of the value of marriage as an equal and lifelong partnership between a man and a woman. Our understanding of marriage ... |
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May 18th, 2008
Since you've only known this girl a few months I would be very cautious about jumping into marriage too quickly. It's the number one reason that annulments and divorces happen. Let's put that out there ... |
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May 18th, 2008
This is a hard question to answer, and I appreciate the anquish with which you must ask it.
If you were married in a Catholic ceremony, you would promise to do all within your power ... |
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May 18th, 2008
Yes, it's true that Jesus' own prayer was directed toward God as Father. The prayer which Jesus teaches his disciples in ths gospels of Matthew and Luke is addressed to "our Father" and does not ... |
