Is it fine to attend Sunday mass online because of my heavy work schedule? Have I sinned to do so? I attend mass recorded from my church. The day has only 12 hours,I try to replenish sleep, and play with my cats and go out with my husband who really wants to do outdoor activities with me. I am exhausted ! My mom said if I love god so much I should go to church. So I did for a few weeks and now I don’t look forward to Sun anymore, please help Fr Francis. Sincerely.
This is a bit embarrassing but does oral sex count as sex before marriage? Me and my girlfriend both enjoy it but then I’m getting worried about whether I’m turning my back on God. I sort of feel unclean whenever I do it but that might be because of what people said online. Finally, if it is a sin do I need to go to confession? Is it a grave/mortal sin or not as serious.
I am a teacher, and would like to give guardian angel cards to students, do I need to ask Father to bless the cards first before giving the cards to students?
When Jesus told the Samaritan woman he would have given her living water. What then is the living water?
I am a Catholic but my husband is not. He does not believe neither in God nor in heaven. He argues that if God does love everyone without any condition then he does not need to be a Catholic to enter Heaven. He believes that as long as he is a “good” guy, our “God” will let him enter into heaven.
I am going through a period of bad lust and going further away from God, and my desire to become a Priest becomes less and less. I am 17 years old and I have been dating a girl for a while now. We are falling into deep lust now. We are both practicing Catholics, but because of this I feel like we are falling away from the faith. I think I have lost my virginity, but I don’t want to go deep into that. My question is, how can we overcome this and come back to the faith Hollier.
How do we reconcile the belief in the real presence with receiving in the hand? How about the lost particles that fall to the floor?
Prophecies are blaspemies (blasphemies) because prophecies undermine, marginalize, and misrepresent God. Why would Catholics believe in prophecies like the prophecy of Christ? It is absurd to believe God needs some humans to do God’s bidding.
Hi Fr Francis, I recently heard that if we attend midnight mass on Dec 24th, we do not need to attend Christmas Day mass on December 25 to fulfill “Christmas obligation”. This year is different as Christmas day is a Sunday. We need to go to mass on Christmas Day to our Sunday mass “duty”. But if neither Christmas eve nor Christmas Day falls on Sunday, we only need to attend either midnight mass or Christmas Day mass. Is this correct. What about Easter Vigil and Easter Day masses?
Is it true that if someone attends Mass every Friday during Lent (i.e. 7 Fridays), then this person will not go to hell?
If I were asked about the problem of Synoptic Gospels, for instance, why are the three Gospels so similar to each other, how should I respond?
Should religious personnel, such as priests, bishops, etc. get involved in politics? In case your answer is yes, to what extent can they be involved?