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Generally, the Bishops are not in the business of writing and publishing scholarly works. What happens is that Catholic authors write a work, then seek official permission to publish (imprimatur), and an endorsement that the contents are not contrary to the faith (nihil obstat). The original Catholic Encyclopedia obtained both (which are visible at the ...
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Yes, prior to the promulgation of the Novus Ordo Mass finished by 1970, Latin was the language used at Mass throughout the world. The change to the vernacular didn't change the official language of the Catholic Church which is Latin.
Many parts of the Mass are still (or can be) proclaimed in Latin. If you've got some time, watch or listen to the Mass on ...
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I don't see the problem, and the Church sees no problem worth explaining, because:
Unlike some groups, Catholics don't think that death is a sign from God that a person is unworthy.
Being elected pope makes a man infallible. It doesn't him sinless or immortal.
It was God's plan to have a man unanimously elected, and then to have him die of a stroke. I ...
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Actually cardinals, bishops and pope, all hold one and the same degree of Holy Orders in the Catholic Church. All of them are bishops.
Pope: Bishop of Rome is called Pope. As the bishop of Rome he is considered to be first amongst equals.Supremacy of Popes Pope just means Father/Papa
Cardinals: They are special bishopssee note 1 chosen by the Pope to help ...
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To which Saints may a Catholic pray, and when can this begin?
Actually a catholic can privately pray to anyone whom he/she thinks can intercede on their behalf. In fact Catholics do not see any difference in asking you to pray for me and asking my dead grandma (if I believe she is in heaven) to pray for me.
Is it restricted to only those who are designated ...
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The birth of the Church was at Pentecost and Peter was definitely present and immediately made his presence felt as the vicar of Christ on Earth subsequent to the descent of the Holy Spirit on him and the other apostles and Our Lady in the upper room.
Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed to them,
Acts 2:14 NABRE
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Part of the Litany of the Holy Name of Mary:
Mary, house of God, pray for us
Mary, sanctuary of the Lord, pray for us
Mary, altar of the Divinity, pray for us
Mary, Virgin Mother, pray for us
Mary, embracing your Infant God, pray for us
The Holy Table would be the altar. Calling the altar the Holy Table is mostly an Eastern Catholic and ...
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St. Joseph is the terror of Demons because all of demons effort is nullified if one seeks refuge to St. Joseph and also because he is pure, and demons cannot stand against his purity.
Even though there is no official dogmatic pronunciation in this regard by the Catholic church, numerous private revelationsexample and traditions have held that St. Joseph, ...
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Here is a partial list of orders with members who are/were bishops. That is this list contains only males religious societies.
Here is another 800 abbreviations including women religious.
Annuario Pontificio lists all the existing approved and recognized Catholic religious orders. You can see the 2011 list here.
That should help you to some extent. But ...
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I don't know where you got the idea that the Catholic church has taken no position on Santa Muerte. The current official position of the Catholic Church is that honoring Saint Death is heresy.ref Mexico's Catholic Bishop Conference has accused Santa Muerte devotees of mixing Christianity with devil-worship.ref According to a statement by Roman Catholic ...
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Bishops (from the Greek, epi-scopus = overseers) are the successors of the Apostles. Their primary responsibility is shepherding the faith of the people in their diocese. They ordain priests, perform the sacrament of confirmation on the faithful, and serve to teach, provide guidance and support for the faithful. So in that sense, they indeed have the ...
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As a very preliminary point, there are several "Rites" within the Roman Catholic Church1 and some of them have never had, and never will have, Latin liturgical services. So all of the below applies specifically to the Roman Rite (which is the most widespread by far).
To lay the basic groundwork: Latin is still the official liturgical language of the Roman ...
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This is very similar to another question.
In addition to Alypius' answer here, what I wrote in that other question is also valid:
There remains the possibility that the cardinals will fail to discern the will of the Spirit. However, that can no more be determined by the faithful than it can be by the cardinals themselves. So yes, we must believe that ...
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One who is exploring whether to become Catholic is known as an Inquirer and is in the stage known as Period of Evangelization and Precatechumenate, as explained by the USCCB's webpage devoted to explaining the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. It goes on:
After a conversation with a priest, or RCIA director, the person, known as an "inquirer," may ...
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I shall pose a counter-question. Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do good things happen to bad people? I see no issue with the death of Stephen.
As to "God's will is worked through the conclave", well, I will agree but only to a point. God's will is also worked through the US general election. The fact that God's will is worked through a process ...
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One point I always like to stress to my Catechism class because I think it really shows a lot about who Jesus and Mary are is that she is, as the Litany of Loreto says, the
Ark of the Covenant
The Ark held God within it and physically held a few mementos of desert wanderings (According to the tradition the Book of Hebrews uses in 9:4)
which had the ...
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I had this question myself a few years back, and spent quite a while reading through the Bible to get an answer. What I found was that there is no explicit mention of other life in the universe apart from what is on earth and the spiritual/heavenly realm.
And by spiritual realm I mean a wide category of creation mentioned in the Bible, from angels to demons ...
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This is not an answer but a scientific clarification, please delete if inappropriate. But since the OP asked
(correct me if I'm wrong)
Lights on earth are only visible from space if you are very close.
The only planets we can actually "see" are the ones in our solar system. As far as we know these don't carry any life at all
With the aid of Kepler ...
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Although Mary is the Mother of God, she is not his mother in the sense that she is older than God or the source of her Son’s divinity, for she is neither. Rather, she is the Mother of God in the sense that she carried in her womb a divine person—Jesus Christ, God "in the flesh".
If this is not so then it is like saying that Mary did not carry God in her ...
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Assuming you meant when St.Peter received his supremacy and not just becoming the bishop of Rome, I believe it is to be at the reinstatement of Peter (John 21:15-17). For this reason, this is also the gospel reading in an installation Mass of a new Pope.
When Jesus addressed Peter in Matthew 16:18-19, he was foretelling the Peter's supremacy. Moreover at ...
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Nobody will mind if I quote a 1850 year old document at length here right? If you don't read it with any context it might seem kind of strange. The Protoevangelium of St. James is definitely apocryphal, but that doesn't make it bad and it certainly shows evidence of an age old tradition (and a good one).
And her months were added to the child. And ...
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In a "Short Catechism on Mary" French Cardinal Charles Journet wrote:
Q. How do we know the Virgin Mary never committed any sin
A. If the had committed even the slightest sin, she could not truly be called full of grace, neither would she have been the Worthy Mother of God
So, in one sense, if she pondered what the Angel called her, "full of ...
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I was looking for this answer a while in my Seat of Wisdom Diocesan Institute notes, hopefully this answers your question. I think Jayarathina (can I call you Jay?) has a pretty good answer. I'm not going to try to define terms, just make up some new ones.
And if someone could please fix the latin words I'm trying to use, I can't find them in the dictionary ...
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Although I am not a Catholic I believe I can answer your question more determinately.
The only place where the exact instant seems to have been conjectured within Roman Catholic tradition is by St. Thomas in the Summa Theologica, Part 3, Question 75, ‘Article 7. Whether this change is wrought instantaneously?
And therefore it must be said that this ...
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Why Protestants see themselves as being able to break out of the cycle of sin through their personal affirmation that Jesus is their Personal Savior is more or less a mystery to Catholics.
Why Catholics think the mere act of eating what appears to be a piece of Bread can renew their life within them and give them a share in Sanctifying Grace is a more or ...
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The other fellas addressed this pretty well, but I figured, what the heck, might as well muddy the waters with some extra stuff from the "Short Catechism of Mary"
70) When was the "Hail Mary" introduced into the Liturgy?
The first part, which is in the Gospel, appeared in an Entrance Antiphon of the Mass around the 6th century. It began to spread ...
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The Bible provides no exemption for lying. It is always wrong to lie. However, one option is to not give any reply at all.
I think Corrie Ten Boom writes about this in perhaps The Hiding Place. She herself, I believe, had decided to not disclose the whereabouts of her brothers when the Nazi's were coming to draft them into the war. However, Corrie's ...
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The Catechism says:
"An indulgence is partial or plenary according as it removes either part or all of the temporal punishment due to sin." The faithful can gain indulgences for themselves or apply them to the dead.
CCC 1471
and I think that answers it. Every time you bless yourself with holy water, you have a partial indulgence. A plenary ...
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I don't understand how a body can exist without flesh, But a simple answer to your question is NO, It does not. It is actually the opposite. It is condemned as a heresy in the Catholic Church if one claims that Jesus is in heaven without his body/flesh. This concept falls into variation of different heresies Docetism, Apollinarism, Manichaeism etc.,
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It's important to distinguish between two kinds of clerical titles:
Those that derive from the reception of the sacrament of Order and indicate a permanent character in the recipient's soul, which can never be taken away and persists even beyond death
Those that indicate an ecclesiastical office that is held by appointment or election for a determinate ...
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