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| bio | website | acleach.me.uk |
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| location | United Kingdom | |
| age | 47 | |
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Former Anglican (in the Anglo-Catholic tradition from age 9), now a Roman Catholic in the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the UK.
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Oct 5 |
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How about the outside of the Garden of Eden? Your questions need to show your research, I'm afraid. Why is it "clear"? What is "indirect"? I have some idea of what you're talking about, but you can help the answer by giving more detail in the question. Have you considered that God could have created other people? The Bible does not say that he didn't; it only mentions the characters important to the story. |
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Oct 5 |
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What does it mean for a priest 'to lose faith'? Could you define "the Book" please, as it can mean different things to different people: Islam etc | Latter-Day Saints |
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Oct 4 |
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Do Catholic priests have to report child abuse confessed in secret? Ah. I think you're ascribing undue significance to the subheadings in my answer. They were a shorthand for "Within the Sacrament of Reconciliation" (although the Canons do say that the proper place is in the confessional, and every church must have at least one with a fixed grille). A confession can indeed be sacramental elsewhere. |
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Oct 3 |
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What traditions fully embrace the concept of a “local parish church”? I didn't intend to give the impression that one had to be a member of a parish to attend its parish church. That's not the case; but if you want to participate in the life of the Church as if you were resident in that parish, you need either to be actually resident or pseudo-resident by virtue of membership of the Roll. |
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Oct 3 |
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Are non-Catholics allowed to go to confession? "Probably should" would not have been strong enough in my case. I wasn't given the choice: confession is part of the process! [And none the worse for that; it's always cathartic and I'm convinced some major changes in my life happened as a result of that pre-reception sacrament.] However there's an intention to become a Catholic at that point, which may not be the case in the situation the OP asks about. |
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Oct 2 |
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Why are Independent Baptist Fundamentalists labelled Protestants? @warren Who are you agreeing with? Certainly not me; I'm Catholic. |
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Oct 2 |
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Why are Independent Baptist Fundamentalists labelled Protestants? @dongle26 "We believe it was heretical from the beginning of its foundation" sounds very much like a protesting statement to me. It's also in grave danger of being wrong, depending on your point of view [about when and how the Catholic Church was founded]. |
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Oct 1 |
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Are non-Catholics allowed to go to confession? I would posit that 844.4 is not inconsistent with 959 or 204.1 or my answer. One would not approach a Catholic priest for confession without manifesting Catholic faith in respect of the sacrament. |
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Oct 1 |
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Why are Independent Baptist Fundamentalists labelled Protestants? I have a feeling that the Church of England (and thus the Anglican Communion in general) might have something to say about only Lutherans being Protestants. |
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Sep 30 |
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When did the church in the city of Rome first try to impose a tradition on other churches? I don't believe this is written from a neutral viewpoint and the obvious bias makes it unreliable as an answer. Quite apart from whether it's the answer to the asked question, and it doesn't appear to me that it is. |
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Sep 30 |
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Do Catholic priests have to report child abuse confessed in secret? @Ryan See Cann 984 §2 and 964 §3 (and 964 §1). However these are better raised in another question than comments. And I see there is one: What makes a confession sacramental? |
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Aug 31 |
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Why does Judaism celebrate Sabbath on Saturday and most Christians celebrate Sabbath on Sunday? @Flimzy Saturday comes from Saturn, which is the god Romans worshipped on that day of the week. Other languages do translate Sabbath though. |
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Aug 14 |
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According to Reformed Theology, are Catholics Christians? Citations would be useful, I think. For example, what are "erroneous statements about what it takes to be saved"? |
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Aug 13 |
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According to Reformed Theology, are Catholics Christians? @waxeagle I suppose it would be possible to go through the Westminster Confession and cross-reference the Catechism of the Catholic Church. I think that fails the scope test. |
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Aug 13 |
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According to Reformed Theology, are Catholics Christians? Is this really reasonably scoped? "If you can imagine an entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much." And how do you classify "fundamental belief"? |
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Jul 20 |
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Anglo-Catholics and the Ordinariate @DJClayworth ordinariate.org.uk/page.aspx?pid=405 (2011 figures; more have joined since then). usordinariate.org/faq.html (although I may have misunderstood and those figures are intending members rather than current actual members). |
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Jul 19 |
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Is it true the term 'pontifex maximus' was the name of the high priest of the Roman Cult of Emperor Worship, before being adopted by the Pope? Is there anything which the Wikipedia article does not cover? |
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Jul 18 |
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Anglo-Catholics and the Ordinariate Thank you for the introduction @PeterTurner! I'll see what I can find out about numbers (but it's not easy, or there would have been no need for the question) |
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Jul 3 |
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Why aren't I considered illegitimate? To answer the last comment explicitly, children cannot become illegitimate. If a valid marriage is annulled, it doesn't change the status of any children. |
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Jun 27 |
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What translation does the Catholic Breviary of England use for Psalms? I don't think there's anything else to add! The answer's right; I can bear your research out from experience. I didn't intend to muscle in, although some expansion of the OP's implication of all England needed clarification (again from experience). |
