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The Catholic Church and its teachings and views on specific subjects.
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Connections Between "Gates of Hell" and Heresies from a Catholic Standpoint
Matthew 16:18
And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. (Douay-Rheims)
Some commentary regarding the &...
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What has been the argument for the entrance hymn in the Church?
I attend the Ordinary form of the Mass. In it the entrance hymn is sung more often than the Gregorian introitus. I've been thinking about the reasons for this.
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What is the take of Catholic Church on Codex Gigas?
The National Library of Sweden has a rare manuscript by the name Codex Gigas. It is a compilation of texts including those of both Old and New Testaments, a medical book, chants etc. One curious thing ...
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Clarification of the 2007 letter of Pope Benedict XVI to bishops on the liturgy
The following excerpt was copied and pasted from the following webpage on the Corpus Christi Watershed website: More on the subject of “Mutual Enrichment” :
A letter of Pope Benedict XVI to bishops, ...
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How Many Fathers of the Catholic Church are There; and Where to Find a Reliable List?
Does anyone know for sure how many Church Fathers have been so declared by the Catholic Church (assuming that the last one is St. John Damascene); and where I may find a reliable list of them?
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According to Catholic theology, can a damned person be resuscitated, converted, and then go to Heaven?
In canto 20 of Dante's Paradiso, Dante describes what Ciardi's footnotes on lines 106-117 say is a pious tradition that Pope Gregory (540-604) prayed for the salvation of the Emperor Trajan (53-117) ...
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What is the official stand of Catholic Church on Luminous Mysteries of Rosary?
In the 16th century, Pope Pius V established a 15-Mysteries Rosary comprising of Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious Mysteries. In the year 2002, Pope John Paul II added five Luminous Mysteries depicting ...
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Church Fathers Who Have Commented on Matthew 18:20
Matt. 18:20 (D-R):
For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Does anyone know of any Fathers of the Catholic Church whom have commented on this ...
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Why is the Council of Jerusalem not considered as the First Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church?
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, a question about the First Ecumenical Council: Nicaea I (325)
I have read that the Council of Jerusalem is labeled as a "General Council." Furthermore,...
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What does the Church say about the difference between me saying Prayer before Meal and a priest or deacon doing it?
In the Latin tradition, we have what is called Prayer before Meal:
Benedic, Domine, nos et haec tua dona quae de tua largitate sumus sumpturi, per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
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Church Fathers on the Authority of Ecumenical Councils
This post is somewhat related to On the End of the Patristic Era as Considered by the Catholic Church
The First Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church was the Council of Nicea in 325.
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On the End of the Patristic Era as Considered by the Catholic Church
Does the Catholic Church officially consider the end of the Patristic era to have occurred with the death of St. John Damascene in the eighth century? I have read that some consider St. Bernard of ...
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What is the difference between a Catholic custom and a Catholic tradition?
What is the difference between a Catholic custom and a Catholic tradition?
I have noticed a trend in recent years to call Catholic customs a Catholic tradition (with a small t).
Much confusion is out ...
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Are Catholic Canonizations Infallible?
As a generalization to the question posed in Is the Catholic declaration of an extra biblical saint infallible?, and in hope of obtaining, perhaps, more definitive answers from a Catholic perspective, ...
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Is it a sin to make jokes about being a priest?
Sometimes my friends call me Father as a joke. It is funny because I am a woman and not a priest. We are wondering if this is a sin of irreverence.
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What are the main differences between Catholicism and Protestantism? [duplicate]
I’m interested mainly in values and philosophical differences in terms of the general worldviews and broader views on life, but welcome any answer that may be offered.
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What are the main philosophical differences as well as the main differences in general between Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy? [duplicate]
Again the titular question says everything that I want to ask. I’ve been able to understand to an extent the main differences between the Catholic and Protestant orientations and gather that Eastern ...
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Early Church Fathers' Commentary on Luke 10:16
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The Church Fathers, Early Church Fathers, Christian Fathers, or Fathers of the Church were ancient and influential Christian theologians and writers who established the ...
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Can priests be on capital punishment juries?
Can priests be on capital punishment juries, or is this interdicted as an irregularity by canon law?
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What is the incense-like fragrance one may smell in a Catholic Church during Sunday mass?
Titular question seems to say it all. And not sure how I could expand any further.
But does this have any name? What is the origin or significance of it? Christian traditions having incense to burn is ...
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St. Robert Bellarmine on the Suspension of Public Masses
In his Dignity and Duties of the Priest, or Selva, St. Alphonsus Liguori writes:
Hence the devil has always sought to deprive the world of the Mass by means of the heretics, constituting them ...
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What constitutes a choir for various pre-novus ordo monastic rites?
I was "assisting" (more like just attending) some Latin vespers, Mass and other hours at a Benedictine Monastery last week and I raised this question with a friend of mine but he didn't know ...
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What is Catholic "Gold ring mass"? What kind of liturgy it is?
Today's (12th of September) list of feasts and saints mentions "Gold Ring Mass", but I can not find any information on it. Google perceives this as physical quantity and not as a liturgy and ...
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What does the Catholic Church teach about the observance of Sunday?
We have in Exodus 20:8-11, the Third Commandment in which the Lord instructs Israel to remember the Sabbath and keep it holy. The Commandment is elaborated to explain that just as God had rested after ...
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According to the Catholic Church, how does the creation and imposition of 1752 canon laws lend to and exemplify the simplicity that is in Christ? [closed]
According to the Catholic Church, how does the creation and imposition of 1752 canon laws lend to and exemplify the simplicity that is in Christ?
I've asked this question and had it closed as 'opinion-...
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Why do we wish "peace" to each other during Mass?
How did the practice of wishing the sign of peace to each other during Mass start? I only saw this after I moved here to the United States. I don't recall when going to Mass on Sundays back in Brazil, ...
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Does 1 Kings 15:5 suggest that King David was exempt from following some commandments?
We read in 1 Kings 15:5 that King David had obeyed all the Commandments except in the case of Uriah the Hettite, during his lifetime. The circumstances leading to the death of Uriah in battle were ...
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Searching the Mass Lectionary for Readings from Particular Psalms
A Lectionary (in the Roman Rite) is composed of the readings and the responsorial Psalm assigned for each Mass of the year (Sundays, weekdays, and special occasions).
The Lectionary is arranged in two ...
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Of the 1752 Catholic Canon Laws, how many does the average Catholic need to be aware of in order to practice faithfully?
I think the question title is self-explanatory with this one addition (which I didn't have room for in the title bar):
Of the 1752 Catholic Canon Laws, how many does the average Catholic need to be ...
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How should we interpret this quote from Pope Pius XI?
I just read a quote from Pope Pius XI:
“If you desire peace in your hearts, in your homes, and in your country, assemble each evening to recite the Rosary. Let not even one day pass without saying it,...
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Does voting for a pro-abortion candidate constitute formal cooperation in his crime of promoting child killing?
According to Catholic moral theologians, does voting for a pro-abortion candidate constitute formal cooperation in the politician's crime of promoting child killing?
My question is very similar to &...
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Why did the Church say that an entrance hymn (like the Protestants have) is better than a Gregorian introitus nowadays?
When I attend Mass we sing an entrance hymn. There is no Gregorian introitus.
In the Novus Ordo Missae we seldom have the Gregorian introitus.
I've been thinking why the Church has a need to do away ...
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Did any Early Church Fathers believe that Mary was without sin? [duplicate]
The immaculate nature of Mary is a doctrine, that holds that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception and that she lived a holy and sinless life, but did any of the ...
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How does Roman Catholicism define "the simplicity that is in Christ" found in 2 Corinthians 11:3?
Having just asked this question of Roman Catholicism, which included a fairly lengthy attempt at defining the "simplicity that is in Christ" (2 Corinthians 11:3) from a biblical perspective ...
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Do Catholic priests need permission from a bishop to retire?
I read a blog post from a Catholic saying that the "pastor" (I believe the more common term in Catholicism is "priest"?) of his church asked for permission to retire and the bishop ...
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How is it that Nestorius is venerated in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church?
In a sense, related to What is the controversy that is leading the Syro-Malabar Catholics into schism?
See Wikipedia: Nestorius and observe the churches that venerate Nestorius.
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What is the controversy that is leading the Syro-Malabar Catholics into schism?
I've been reading a little about the controversy and I can't quite wrap my head around it. Are Syro-Malabar Catholics upset that the Pope says to their priests that they need to face the altar while ...
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Catholic Sources Which Point to the Three Visitors to Abraham in Gen. 18 as The Holy Trinity?
Most of the commentary that I have read regarding the identities of the Three Visitors to Abraham in Genesis 18 have all agreed that God (without specifying which Person) was one of them. Many seem to ...
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What Does St. Francis de Sales Mean by "Sounding Periods" in Sermons?
In St. Alphonsus Liguori's Dignity and Duties of the Priest, it is written:
Empty words and sounding periods are, says St. Francis de Sales, the pest of sermons. (De la Predic. ch. 5, a. I.) First, ...
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Is the time-gap as mentioned during Consecration of significance to the Christian faith?
The text of Consecration of the Holy Mass has two integral parts namely the blessing of the bread followed by the blessing of the wine. As the second part commences, the celebrant says "When the ...
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What are some of the reasons why Catholics would feel more drawn to focus on pius devotions than the Psalms?
It seems to me that most Catholic lay people do not focus on the 150 Psalms (found in the Bible) in their daily prayer life.
It seems that many focus on pious devotions instead.
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Does any Catholic Liturgical Rite follow the Ad Orientem form of Holy Mass?
Ad Orientem and Versus Populum are two concepts in relation to the stance of the celebrant of Catholic Liturgy . In the former, the priest faces the Altar along with the faithful. In the latter, the ...
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Since when did the Catholic church accept Protestant baptism, and what was the original rationale for accepting?
This is a historical question. I'm interested in the earliest instance that the Catholic Church (whether by the Vatican or by a bishop) accepted a Protestant baptism for a catechumen (a convert), ...
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On Biblical Verses Invoked in Papal Encyclicals or Ecumenical Councils
Is there an expedient way to find out if a given some particular biblical verse, it has been invoked in either a papal encyclical or a document of an ecumenical council without having to retrieve that ...
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Would every prayer without pre-written words be called mental prayer?
Some people people say that we have two kinds of prayer, i.e. vocal and mental prayer.
When I looked up the term mental prayer in Catholic dictionary I found this:
"The form of prayer in which ...
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If I'm not Catholic, will a Catholic priest bless my home?
If I'm a Protestant, and ask a Catholic priest to come bless my home, does the Catholic Church allow him to?
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On Bible Translations That Catholics are Permitted to Read
I have started to read "Introduction to the Bible" by Fr. John Laux, M.A.. The following is extracted from pg. 20:
The Third Plenary Council of Baltimore (1884) says in its Pastoral Letter: ...
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Can a Catholic funeral include a personal tribute?
My grandmother-in-law had requested a funeral the same as her twin sister, who died 24 years ago. This had included a personal tribute read by a family member.
We're being told by the priest for my ...
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What was Jesus' blood type , by official pronouncement of Catholic Church?
A write-up in cherishrecatholic.org states that Jesus belonged to AB type of blood group, as per official announcement of Catholic Church. The article cites a eucharistic miracle that happened in ...
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On Luke 10:16 Invoked by a Pope or an Ecumenical Council
He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me.
— Luke 10:16 (D-R)
I am aware of these three instances:
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