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El Nostro

Nostrodamus says that Wars often follow pestilences and diseases and plagues - is this always the case among the Christian mystics and soothsayers?

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Rosarium

My 75 year old elderly mother would like to learn the rosary more, and to say it oft, but finds the vain repetition to be off-putting, is the devotion though a sign of the babbling that Jesus warned about of the pharisees?

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Ashes to Ashes

I attended the funeral of a faith healer through Zoom not long ago and was surprised that the family and next of kin chose cremation with which to resolve the issues surrounding his death, is there a reason for all of this short-circuiting on the rites? I was also shocked at the choice of contemporary pop music for the sacred music of the funeral service at the crematorium - is this all okay in the codexes?

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Minutiae

What is the status of flowers at a funeral, can flowers be put on the coffin during the service at such times as is the GB custom, and why do priests object to flowers so much anyway at such times?

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Maria

The Feast of the Madonnina of Fatima is coming up on the 13th of May, is there anything special or additional we might like to know about it all?

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Responsum

Herewith the Response from the new pope to the Quinque Nova Dubia of the 5 neocon cardinals

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Prayers

Is it really allowable to confess a sin and then to fall into the same sin the following week, with the result that one is repeating one’s previous confession?

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Bello und Bella

What does the Catholic Church teach on the subject of the Wars that periodically afflict our world, is there anything positive that can be said about them?

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Last Days

I am still somewhat fazed by the onset of the idea of the Last Day and the Final General Judgement…

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777

Why is it that the Bossy piecemeal conversion of England is so often left to the humble parish priest of Britain and the islands?

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797

In your spiritual opinion speaking as a spiritual director of souls, is there something in the Codex of church rules and regulations and provisions that helps with the whole idea of choosing schools for children, do parents enjoy some human rights on this issue?

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757

Is there any truth in the rumours that the labels on Christianity are in for some changing soon..

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Christians

I am reconciled and something now of a repentant sinner, and yet I still find I am dwelling on my past sins and still feeling guilt about the past, is there a word for this feeling of not being able to get away from the past?

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003

There was much resistance to the New Catechism before it came out in its printed editions..

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1896

If your team rectory were to diagnose the problems of society in this present age how would they go about it, and is there any truth in the idea that the Church Catholique first came up with the green awareness movement even in 1968?

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002

Why the emphasis outside of the NRA conference halls today on gun control when everyone knows that only forthright action at Congress can change the way we live in America?

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0027 & 0255

It is because I am at my wit’s end that I repair to you as a Jurist in the maybe vain hope that a lawyer will clarify to me why there are so many competing doctrines of the Trinity around in the sermons of the clergy in my home diocese to the south near Windsor Castle, any light to shed?

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Musique

Am always amazed at the music at such times as these, especially during Lent but also curiously at Easter though one notices a slight fall-off at Easter, any reason?

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2309

What is the purpose of just war doctrine if Christian western pre-emptive nations are not going to abide by it?

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Return?

With the rules of the Church now ostensibly back at Pentecost does that mean we will all be receiving holy communion in our homes again once more just like the good old days?

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