May 9, 2020

Beginnings of Human Life

The Catholic Church teaches that we have a body and a soul. When do we receive our souls? Is it at the moment of conception?

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Assuring a Person’s Salvation

Two readers asked the same basic question about final repentance and salvation.
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Is It a Sin Not to Be ‘Green’?

Is someone committing a sin by denying the moral implications of ecological choices?
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A Scary Prayer for a Child

As a child, I was taught to pray: “Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” If this ...
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What Advice Can I Give?

My daughter-in-law’s brother is in a committed gay relationship and is going to be the father of a child carried by a woman who will allow the two men to adopt the baby.
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Sharing Communion Is Rarely Permitted

May a Catholic give or invite a non-Catholic to receive holy Communion? Wouldn’t that promote our efforts toward ecumenism?
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‘Asleep in Christ’

In my Bible readings I come across passages about “those asleep in Christ.” What is meant by those “asleep in Christ?”
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