What’s the Apocrypha?
What’s the Apocrypha and why is it part of some Bibles and not others? The Apocrypha is the set of 15 books generally placed between…
read moreWhy Does God Love Us All So Much?
God loves us because God IS love — infinite and perfect love, greater than any love that we can imagine. Our human ability to love…
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Can I Marry in the Church Building if I am Pregnant?
Question: I was 18 when I married my first husband. The local priest would not let us have the ceremony in the church because I…
read moreHow much does the Bible say I should donate to my church?
The Old Testament contains a vast amount of material about giving a portion of one’s harvest, properties, or ownings back to God. Many commandments in…
read moreDo Animals Have Rights?
Q: Don’t animals have rights? Why doesn’t the church consider that animals have a soul? Shouldn’t we all be vegetarians? It depends what you mean…
read moreCan I Secretly Replace a Lost Wedding Band?
Q: I am a best man and I lost one of the rings. Am I required to replace the band and can I do it…
read moreWas Mary as pious as she looks in most statues?
If you think about any statue of a famous person, like a president or general in a park, you know that these statues are usually…
read moreCan Catholics Celebrate Santa and the Easter Bunny?
Q: It is part of our culture to make Christmas about Santa instead of Christ’s birth and Easter about the Easter Bunny instead of Christ’s…
read moreDo I need to know Greek to really understand the Bible?
The short answer is no. There are many people in the world who do not know Greek, but have a strong understanding of the Bible academically as well as spiritually. It is unlikely that any Christian you know, including your parish priest, is able to read the New Testament in its original Greek…
read moreWhat’s “The Year of Faith” All About?
In 2011 Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed that October 11, 2012, would begin “The Year of Faith.” Longer than a calendar year, The Year of Faith…
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