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2008-07-03 Catholics - rules for priests touching congregants: Sadly, in this modern world most forms of touch are "discouraged" lest we give rise to scandal. However, at a pastoral level, there is still room for discretion in general; it would probably depend...
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2008-07-03 Catholics - Troubles: Peace dear Matt Perhaps, there two things you can. These two things have kept me relatively sane in relation to my own brothers and sisters, who are either anti-Catholic or just indifferent to...
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2008-07-03 Catholics - baptism by fire: Your thought is very interesting but one that I have never heard. If the reason for the fire is for salvation [as you remember], then it would not be a sacramental Baptism sosome other term would be appropriate...
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2008-07-02 Catholics - baptism by fire: No Catholic teaching says that a person who dies in a fire goes to heaven in virtue of a baptism by fire. Possibly, the reference may have been to Baptism by blood, which refers to a person preparing...
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2008-07-02 Catholics - Binding and loosing: Dear Renita: The binding and loosing is a quotation from the Old Testament, Isaiah 22:21-23. It refers to the authority given to the Prime Minister of the King. Peter was made the first Prime Minister...
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