Nativity will have a Communal Reconciliation Thursday, April 14 at 7:00 PM. Do Catholics have to go to confession at least once a year? Paragraph #1457 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches us “each of the faithful is bound by an obligation faithfully to confess serious sins at least once a year.”...
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Is it wrong to go to someone who claims to speak to the dead? I’ve been invited to go to see a medium and am not sure if I should. The Bible is very clear that consulting with ghosts and spirits or seeking oracles from the dead are an abomination to the Lord. According...
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What is the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults? The United States Catholic Catechism for Adults, released in 2006, is an adaptation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for members of the Church in the United States. Intended to be a catechetical resource for adults, this Catechism consists of 36 chapters, a conclusion,...
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18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Twenty years ago, Marianne Wilson saw a need; thousands of people with critical illnesses were going hungry in her area of Southern California, and she just wasn’t going to stand for it. She began cooking healthy meals and delivering them to men, women and children dying from HIV/AIDS, cancer,...
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17th Sunday in Ordinary Time There is a certain fast-food company that sells hamburgers. In their advertising, they claim that their product has the ability to satisfy our cravings. In fact, several television ads depict their hamburger calling people up on the phone, ostensibly getting them to stop whatever it is they are doing...
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