Canada 加拿大
With a toddler and a baby, I find our family missing mass quite a bit during the winter cold and flu season as sickness rotates throughout each of us! Is missing mass due to a child’s sickness (or even our own) considered a sin that will require confession each time before receiving communion?
基督徒可以紋身嗎？
A family member, a born Catholic, has become a modernist/universalist during these years. He believes people of all religions can enter heaven; muslims, jews, hindus, scientologists, even pagans of the ancient world can enter heaven! He believes that there is one God, but he thinks that all the religious people of the world basically worship the same God even if it’s not Jesus! How can we help him to bring him back to the Catholic faith?
Is Judas in Heaven or in hell? What if he did repent after he placed the rope on his neck but could not have physically affording to get off the rope. Did the Church, or Her prophets and saints, ever discussed about Judas’ final fate?
Why is the Church promoting our faithful to do novena with fixed prayers and such prayers usually fall into fixed number of days, such as 3, 8, 9, 33? Which novenas would you recommend?
Some ladies wear a veil to mass but most don’t. Some wear black and some wear white. What is the meaning of the veil?
How should we respond to arguments against the existence of God? The most common arguments I heard of are: 1) God knew everything we would do when He made us so there is no true free will. 2) There are many good people suffering and many unanswered prayers.
During a difficult delivery, the Doctor gives the Mother and Father the choice: “I can save either the mother’s life or the child’s life. Which do you want me to save first?” The church tells us that we should save the baby’s life, but many would not agree. What are your thoughts?
We are Catholic and received an invitation from our cousin to attend his daughter’ s same sex marriage in Toronto. Are we supposed to refuse to attend or not?
Do Catholics have the obligation to go to Stations of the Cross every Friday during Lent? What if some Fridays were skipped?
I would like to introduce my faith to a non believer through reading a Gospel. Which one should I start with and why?
神父平安。我的老家在新年時，有拜神明的習慣，而我不得不參與這個傳統。但我只是拿香站著而已，並沒有把神明當作神的心思，且在進行時，總是請求天主的垂憐與諒解。我需要不斷為此辦和好聖事，否則不能領聖體嗎？我是否會因此而失去天主的恩寵？祂是否因此而不再應允我的祈禱？謝謝神父。
How should or can I handle church weekly printed bulletins if I wish to dispose them? May I recycle them just as any paper products? If so, should I be shredding them before disposing? Or, should I bring them to any public places and leave them there, such as libraries, whenever possible and permissible?
If Jesus came to die for our sins, in order for us to go to heaven, what happened to all the people before Jesus’ coming?
請問一般教友可以因耶穌的名驅魔嗎？
A Protestant friend of mine said that since his parents were not Christians when they passed away, they might be in hell. He said if they are in hell, he would like to go to hell in future to be with them forever. What should I tell him?
1) Will it lead to superstition to greet people with 「恭喜發財」 during Chinese New Year? 2) Are all the Chinese New Year 「揮春」 like the 「福字」 and the symbols of the 「十二生肖」 will be the cracks to let Satan sneak into our house? 3) Can we read the little paper from the fortune cookies for fun?
Do Catholics have to get married in the Church? What if it is at the beach and the Priest officiates the wedding?
Jesus preached mostly to Jews in His 3 years of ministry (except the encounter of the woman of Canaanite). He downplayed the Gentiles (Matthew 5:47, 6:7) and even instructed the Apostles to avoid them (Matthew 10:5). In the first few chapters of Acts, Peter also focused his ministry on Jews. But then God made a sharp turn converting Saul/Paul and sent him to Gentiles preaching the Gospel. Was the plan changed? Why?
