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“Ask a Priest: What If It’s Hard for Me to Accept My Body?”
Q: So I’m a Protestant, but I’ve begun to explore Catholicism after many years of feeling disenchanted with my old faith system. I’m still a little uneasy about it because I worry it’ll be like jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire. My youth group was deeply ...
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Q: The family of the girl I’ve been dating for years and intend to marry owns a fertility center. It was not until few months ago that I learned about the Catholic stance on fertility treatment. To be fair, these things are not taught to us in our upbringing and ...
Read More → “Ask a Priest: What If Mom Is Dating and Doesn’t Have an Annulment?”
Q: My mother claims to be a practicing Catholic, yet she is dating a man without having gotten an annulment since being divorced. I tried explaining to her that what she is doing is very wrong, since she and the man she’s dating are still married to their respective spouses ...
Read More → “Ask a Priest: How Can I Evangelize at Home?”
Q: What are the ways a common religious Catholic can evangelize within his family? I do not want to become a Jehovah’s Witness and go evangelizing from door to door. – Philip Answered by Fr. Edward McIlmail, LC A: The short answer is to live your faith in the fullest way ...
Read More → “Ask a Priest: What If My Teen Didn’t Receive Communion?”
Q: My 13-year-old daughter is being disrespectful during Mass. She doesn’t follow the Mass, is awkward with others during the rite of peace, and today she decided that she wasn’t going to take Communion because she was tired and didn’t want to walk up to the altar. I didn’t want ...
Read More → “Ask a Priest: What If Family and Friends Aren’t Living Their Faith?”
Q: How do we hang out with Catholic family and friends who say they love Jesus but have little to do with him and do not want to change anything about their lives? They use vulgarity and use God’s name irreverently. Their children are living in sin and/or in lesbian/homo ...
Read More → “Ask a Priest: What If My Son Is Childless After Years of Marriage?”
Q: Should I ask (if so, how) my son and daughter-in-law, who are otherwise practicing their Catholic faith sincerely and consistently, why they are not having children? They are 31 and 30 years old, respectively, and have been married five years. They are both financially very well off. They are ...
Read More → “Ask a Priest: Should I Have Tried to Stop My Son From Receiving Communion?”
Q: Recently there was a memorial Mass for a deceased family member. My 40-something son attended and received Communion. He does not regularly attend Mass. I don’t know the last time he attended. Did I commit a sin by not telling him he shouldn’t go to Communion? There are so ...
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