Q: I work as a computer programmer and am interviewing soon for a new job. The position’s duty is to provide computer support to a research project on how genetics affects cancer development and especially how to improve treatments. I would mostly be building programs that researchers use to store ...

Q: I am my 16-year-old grandson’s confirmation sponsor. My son and his family stopped going to Mass ever since the lockdown from COVID-19. I have tried different ways (many little hints) to get them to come back. My prayers have not been answered yet. My question is: Am I responsible ...

Q: I’m struggling to love a certain woman in my parish. I realized that my love is so imperfect. When she annoys me, I find myself ruminating about what she did (even when it’s minor). It becomes a preoccupation, and this is preventing me from loving her as Christ commanded ...

Q: My husband and I were out for lunch, and when we were packing our leftovers away I noticed that he left a cup of rice in the bowl instead of packing it. I was raised my whole life believing that being wasteful with food is a sin. We got ...

Q: Is consuming material that might weaken or even potentially destroy my faith in God and his Church a serious sin? I was reading an old examination of conscience about “sins against faith.” When it spoke about mortal sin it included: “Have I, without a serious reason, associated with persons ...

Q: I’m a married man with two children. My father was over one morning to pick up my 1½-year-old daughter. My father and I don’t agree on much, and have very little in common. My father isn’t religious, and even ridicules religion at times. Anyway, one of the few things ...

Q: Do we have a moral obligation to boycott companies that pay abortion costs to employees or support homosexual marriages etc.? I’ve heard some arguments like material cooperation is all around us, we don’t really do any significant damage to the companies, and just morally we don’t have an obligation. ...

Q: When things don’t go the way I hope they will (such as failing a class even when I try very hard), or when I feel distant from God, I often feel a temptation to deliberately sin (not against others, more against God’s law, such as lately dwelling on the ...