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It needs to go. It's a distraction almost immediately before you go to the altar to receive the Body of Christ. (Launching into the announcements, the "liturgy of the bulletin", immediately after communion is almost as bad, announcements either belong before Mass or after the homily.) One...

The great ignored fact of all this, is that embryos that are created only to perish, are just as much "aborted" as those conceived beings who are killed in later stages of development. IVF is not God's way. If a couple cannot conceive in the normal fashion, then they just need to accept that...

I don't know if there is any official magisterial teaching on the matter (I tend to doubt it), but I have no hesitation about praying that the dead "will have been saved". More to the point, if their salvation was in jeopardy at the time of death, I pray that something happened in those moments...

Do you mean 10K years is what you've heard about purgatory, or about the sun burning out? According to science, the sun will run out of hydrogen in about 5 billion years, but that is the same science that posits the age of the earth at 4.5 billion years. Young earth creationists would, of...

I hate to have to bring this into it, but the sun is going to last a whole lot longer than ten thousand years, according to science. But it is interesting that a Baptist would admit of a purification after death. Their usual claim is that a person goes immediately to heaven after death, no...

I hate to think of directing him to a Church other than the Catholic Church, but I wonder if he would have any easier time of it, obtaining Orthodox Christian resources. At least he could get a Turkish Bible published under Orthodox auspices (assuming there is such a thing), if nothing else...

You might try this. Resources for Turkish Catholics seem to be few and far between: https://www.bibleinmylanguage.com/i-believe-small-book-of-catholic-catechism-in-turkish-language-inaniyorum-kucuk-katolik-katekizmi/ I also found this, and was able to recognize "kitap" (with that funny thing...

Thank you for posting this, and getting a good conversation started. One thing worth noting, is that even if someone (such as a Protestant) doesn't believe in purgatory, they still go there too, if they die with something less than mortal sin on their soul. I've heard that some Protestants...

Oooh... aaah... sweet! It really looks good. Thanks for all your hard work.

You answered exactly the same as I would have. Thanks for helping me out. I don’t deny that discovery of new manuscripts might help in refining certain Bible passages, and as even Fr Laux (pre-Vatican II) notes, there is always the possibility of errors, albeit minor ones, in the translations...

You didn’t “violate your confession”. That part still stands. As to whether gaming with a friend (as opposed to by yourself) constitutes “individual” recreation, you could argue that both ways. I would go to the same priest, in your next confession, and describe the scenario, then let him be the...

https://www.ncregister.com/interview/new-book-cardinal-pell-s-main-concern-about-the-synod-on-synodality-was-its-attack-on-divine-revelation

Not clear what you mean by this. Are you being ironic? “Unite under one banner” brings to mind something like this: Heaven help anyone who steps out of line.

Homeschooling can easily be done in four hours a day tops, including independent work. And you are right, it can be tailored to the child. This cartoon, which I found last night, absolutely nails my son’s experience at his former so-called “Catholic” school: My son never had an obviously...