Category: Canon Law

What are the Psychological Side Effects of an Abortion?

Question: Is there truly such thing as a post abortion syndrome? If so, what does it consist of and how does it affect the woman who had an abortion? Answer: Among physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists and even priests, the so-called ‘Post-Abortion-Syndrome’ (‘P.A.S.’: ‘Post-Abortion-Syndrome’) is well known. It designates the pathological picture

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Turning the other cheek?

Turning the other cheek?

The other cheek: when Jesus says that if someone strikes us, we should turn the other check, how should we understand this? Question: Dear Fr. Fuentes: When Jesus says that if someone strikes us, we should turn the other cheek, how should we understand this? If someone physically assaults another

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Who can open the Tabernacle

Who can open the Tabernacle?

Question: Are lay people permitted to remove a consecrated host from the tabernacle, in good faith, on a regular basis without the priest being visually present. If so where in the catholic catechism or church teaching is this mentioned or permitted? I thought only a catholic priest or ordained deacon

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