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Full Question I have been a Protestant all my life and am considering converting. What is a mortal sin? Answer Mortal sin is a sin that is so serious it completely turns us from God. Venial sins only hurt our relationship with God; they do not completely turn us from God.…

The liturgical vestments worn at Mass have evolved. Nevertheless, since the earliest days of the Church, liturgical vestments have been worn by priests to celebrate the Mass. Even though priests of the Old Testament wore vestments in their liturgical rites, the "Christian" vestments are not adaptations of them. The vestments…

This is one of the amazing miracle that resulted from praying to Mother Teresa. Father Elmiran Ferreira Santos is the parish priest of Our Lady of Aparecida Parish in Brazil. He testified the miraculous work prayers to Mother Teresa of Calcutta have had on the life of his parishioner. One…

Q:  Why does the Catholic Church baptize babies?  Aren't they too young to understand what is happening to them? A fair question.  The easiest and perhaps best answer would simply be that this was the constant Tradition or teaching of the early Church, right from the time of the Apostles.…

Every time I hear someone claim to be an “ex-Catholic”, a sense of sadness comes over me.  In just about every case, people leave the Catholic Faith due to a lack of understanding.  After all, if Catholics truly believed that they were members of the one, true Church founded by…

The Church has the power to forgive sins; the members of her clergy exercises this authority with the Church's permission to do so. However, there are some sins that the Church has reserved to the Pope and bishops to forgive. Some of them are as follows: Physically attacking the Pope…

Working at her side as the West prepared for war with Saddam Hussein, I saw her dread as she glimpsed the future of Middle Eastern Christianity Those of us who knew her feel a twinge of guilt writing about Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. Mother’s life was always about the other,…

She felt that Jesus was content to find such a lovely reception in her soul. St. Therese often speaks in her autobiography of her joy at receiving the Body of Christ in Communion. In recounting the many times she was able to receive the Eucharist while the flu was raging…