Can a marriage be deemed invalid if it can be established that one of the spouses married the other in order get material benefits, and them divorce them later on when the maritial assets were sufficient to support oneself for a while? How far do you have to go to prove that you or your spouse...
Its been like 13 years now that I had fallen away from the Catholic Church (for many reasons: ie family over zealous and pushing it on me, one egotistical priest etc etc) and I have been trying my best "to serve the unseen, rather than the seen." Im going through some major health issues that...
...projects? I was all alone to deal with it while having 10 siblings and a dad who was disgusted with a little boy who was scared. I felt the hate when My football player brother died of cancer, he was 18 and I was 16. the whole family fell apart but we were not allowed to talk about...
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops President Francis George this week continued the group's criticism of nuns from the Catholic Health Association who endorsed the new health reform law (PL 111-148), CNN reports. USCCB considered the bill's abortion provisions too lenient. Colleen Scanlon...
I was raised in the Catholic church and my husband was raised in a Baptist church. Is there a religion that kinda includes both? We are looking at starting a family and would like to raise our kids with a lil bit of both religions in our lives. Any suggestions?
What are the beleifs and what makes you a true catholic? I am 14 and I don't really know anything about the religion so try to make it simple please.thank you :)
...have an obligation to share? What I am driving at is this: With that claimed moral superiority do they have a moral obligation to open the Vatican archives and share with any who would want to view them, the books, works of art and other information that they keep locked away?
...only thru Jesus Christ? Why do you need another person like Mary or other Saints to intercede for you in heaven? Are we not bound to obey the salvation teaching thru Jesus Christ who is the only One who died for all of our sins?
Intercession should not be made to dead people - whether it be...
"At a time when the male leadership [of the Catholic Church] can be blamed for leading the church to a state of crisis -- at time when the voices of women are needed more than ever -- even the modest roles accorded to female clerics have come under attack," Newsweek's Lisa Miller writes in an...
Ok, so I see a lot of Catholic schools say like "Our Lady Of" something, and I was just wondering why they have "Our Lady Of..." in their titles. Who is Our Lady? And why is she in the name of the schools? Sorry if this isn't very clear...
home to the anitchrist)? antichrist is both religious and political power. Revelation17:3, "so he carried me away in the spirit of the wilderness: and i saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. in prophecy a woman is defined as...
Instead of discouraging homosexuality and promiscuity. Why doesn't it encourage the use of condoms for married couples and straight life styles.
Why does it ignore these issues that happen to be a very large contributer to HIV AIDS.
I see very ugly men on television dressed like women and...
A FORMER vicar-general in the archdiocese of Munich has claimed that he was pressurised last month into taking the blame for a mistake made 30 years ago by the then Archbishop of Munich, Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict), concerning the case of a paedophile priest.
Fr Gerhard Gruber has now...
A FORMER vicar-general in the archdiocese of Munich has claimed that he was pressurised last month into taking the blame for a mistake made 30 years ago by the then Archbishop of Munich, Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict), concerning the case of a paedophile priest.
Fr Gerhard Gruber has...