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Coming Into the Home Stretch: What Is Holy Week?

By Kathy Schiffer|2018-01-27T17:38:43+00:00April 10th, 2017|Faith, Why Do Catholics Do That?|

Yesterday, Palm Sunday, we welcomed Jesus, waving palm fronds in a reenactment of Christ’s jubilant entrance into Jerusalem.  This week will be full of reenactments from Jesus’ last week on earth, culminating with a jubilant

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MERCY WITH MISERY: Pope Repeats Abortion Is a Grave Sin; But Lifts Restriction, Permits Priests to Grant Absolution

By Kathy Schiffer|2018-01-27T17:38:48+00:00November 21st, 2016|Why Do Catholics Do That?|

Catholic priests may now grant absolution to penitents who confess to having procured an abortion.  Let me explain:  Yes, abortion is still gravely wrong. Abortion--having one, performing one, or paying for one--is a mortal sin

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NOTHING NEW HERE, FOLKS! Vatican Clarifies: No Ashes to the Wind!

By Kathy Schiffer|2018-01-27T17:38:50+00:00October 26th, 2016|Uncategorized, Why Do Catholics Do That?|

Can a Catholic be cremated? Yes, but... The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a new instruction Tuesday morning, October 25, explaining the rules and the underlying theology regarding Catholic burials. I

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TWO HYMNS I WILL NOT SING

By Kathy Schiffer|2018-01-27T17:39:07+00:00September 3rd, 2016|Why Do Catholics Do That?|

I love to sing at Mass.  Recalling an adage attributed to St. Augustine, I believe that he who sings, prays twice. From my vantage point in the third row, I want Jesus–waiting and listening from

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The Queenship of Mary Is Deeply Rooted in Scripture

By Kathy Schiffer|2018-01-27T17:39:08+00:00August 22nd, 2016|Faith, Why Do Catholics Do That?|

Today Catholics celebrate the Memorial of the Queenship of the Virgin Mary. Is this some idiosyncratic idea, unique to the Catholic Church? No. Pope Pius XII established August 22 as the Memorial of the Queenship

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8 Bad Reasons to Leave the Catholic Church, and 1 Good Reason to Stay

By Kathy Schiffer|2018-01-27T17:39:32+00:00April 16th, 2016|Why Do Catholics Do That?|

In May 2015, Mark Judge published a column over at RealClearReligion titled "Why I Left the Catholic Church." Judge, a columnist at The Daily Caller and the author of A Tremor of Bliss: Sex, Catholicism, and

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Should the Catholic Church Sell St. Peter’s Basilica and Give the Money to the Poor?

By Kathy Schiffer|2018-01-27T17:39:37+00:00February 13th, 2016|Why Do Catholics Do That?|

“I looked up at the great basilica, and I had two reactions: First, I appreciated its beauty and reverence; but then I thought, ‘What corruption caused someone to spend so much on this building when

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Next Sunday, I’ll Be Going to Church. Where Will You Be?

By Kathy Schiffer|2018-01-27T17:39:37+00:00February 11th, 2016|Why Do Catholics Do That?|

Sunday’s coming.  Where will you be? I got into a discussion recently with some good Catholic friends about going to church on Sunday.  To my surprise, several of them had recently failed to fulfill their

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The Dalmatic Is Dramatic–But Where Did It Come From?

By Kathy Schiffer|2018-01-27T17:39:37+00:00February 4th, 2016|Why Do Catholics Do That?|

Priests wear chasubles.  Deacons wear dalmatics. My own husband is a deacon, so I already know that.  An awful lot of Catholics don’t know, though, how to tell the difference between the liturgical attire for

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Can a Catholic Sign a Prenuptial Agreement?

By Kathy Schiffer|2018-01-27T17:39:58+00:00January 19th, 2016|Why Do Catholics Do That?|

A prenuptial agreement is a contract signed by two parties, specifying how personal property will be divided after the marriage ends some people see it as their divorce insurance. And since the Catholic Church teaches

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