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Category Archives: Sacraments
Can a Priest Administer the Sacrament of Confirmation?
Q: A friend’s husband is going to become a Catholic this year at the Easter Vigil. He wasn’t raised in any faith at all. My friend says that the pastor will administer three sacraments all at the Vigil Mass: baptism, … Continue reading
Posted in Clergy Issues, Confirmation
Tagged canon law, Catholic, confirmation, priest
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Do Converts Have to be Rebaptized?
Q: My coworker is in an RCIA program, and is going to become a Catholic at Easter. She was raised Presbyterian. She told me that she doesn’t need to be baptized in the Catholic Church, because she already was baptized … Continue reading
Does a Catholic Wedding Have to be Held in a Catholic Church?
Q: My daughter is getting married in June, to another Catholic. Our assistant pastor already agreed to perform the wedding, which will take place in our parish church. But now my daughter is thinking she’d rather have the wedding in … Continue reading
Posted in Canonical Issues Involving Non-Catholics, Marriage
Tagged canon law, canonical form, Catholic, church, marriage, non-catholic
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Can Catholic Children Receive the Last Rites?
Q: Some years ago, a good friend’s two-year-old daughter died of a congenital problem. Only recently she told me that when the priest came to see them all in the hospital when the girl was dying, they asked him to … Continue reading
Posted in Annointing of the Sick
Tagged canon law, Catholic, extreme unction, last rites
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Confession by Appointment and Face-to-Face
Q1: We just moved, and our new parish doesn’t have set confession times. The bulletin says “confessions by appointment.” My wife doesn’t think that’s a violation of our right to receive the sacrament, since the priest will hear our confessions … Continue reading
Posted in Confession, Rights of the Faithful
Tagged canon law, Catholic, confession, confessional
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