Why Human Cloning Is Immoral
With all of the news about Dolly the ewe and cloning, how should we deal with this issue as Catholics?
With all of the news about Dolly the ewe and cloning, how should we deal with this issue as Catholics?
In the Apostles Creed we say, "I believe in the resurrection of the body." I have never really understood what this means. Will we have the same body? Please explain.
Why is Jesus called the "Lamb of God?" Would this be the reason why we use the "Lamb of God" song in the Mass?
Recently, I have been seeing more ads on television about psychic counselors. Also, there is a TV show about Sabrina, the teenage witch. How should we as Christians be relating to these issues?
Please explain the role of godparents in Catholic baptism. How strictly should the potential godparents adhere to traditional Catholic teaching? If a couple does not know sufficiently "qualified" godparents, is it acceptable for them to act as the godparents themselves?
The Second Vatican Council's Decree on the Catholic Eastern Churches emphasized, "The Catholic Church values highly the institutions of the Eastern Churches, their liturgical rites, ecclesiastical traditions and their ordering of Christian life. For in those churches, which are distinguished by their venerable antiquity, there is clearly evident the tradition which has come from the Apostles through the Fathers and which is part of the divinely revealed, undivided heritage of the Universal Church" (No. 1).
I am confused over Holy Days of Obligation. Last year, January 1 was not a holy day of obligation, but this year it was. A friend even argued with me that we did not have to go to Mass because the rule had been changed. What's up?
I recently sat through a penance preparation session for parents. The teacher said, "Only neurotics would believe in mortal sin as we used too. Instead, mortal sin only happens when we break our fundamental option for God." I don't understand this. Whatever happened to mortal and venial sin?