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Weddings

As wedding fever grips Paris, including even the normally shy and diffident and timorous Paris Hilton, what is the official position on weddings in the official corpus of the Church’s wedding rites, any signs of progress?

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Georgios

Anything to add to the paucity of knowledge about St George?

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Ministeria

Is there any sign of some opening up of the liturgical altar ministries to others of some lay deputation or something, any sign of a growing liberalisation on the part of your religion?

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De capitis

What then is your considered parish position and the generic church position in your religion to the issues of capital punishment now that another inmate on death row has been pardoned today?

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Person

What is the meaning of baptism for our times, in the moderne era?

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Consecrate

What are the limitations if any imposed on the Act of Consecration re-launched this last month of Russia to Our Lady and the Immaculate Heart and Sacred Hearts? Any light to shed on this subject?

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Liturgical

Excuse the added interest in the sphere of the liturgical quaesitum, but can you alleviate the siege of Orleans on this one - when is a liturgical furnishing not a liturgical furnishing, or is there a vacancy for a 3-drop spoonette still in some parishes of a more precise hue?

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Tithe

What is the point of supporting cardinals in London with pennies on the collection plate while the same cardinals do not preach the evident merits of biblical tithing?

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Shieldmaiden

Is there some Christian root to Christianity in Britain that lies around Glastonbury, anything we can know?

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Kyrie

Do be so kind as to excuse this Quaestio on an issue of liturgical minutiae, but is there a reason for the Kyrie at the beginning of Holy Mass?

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Red, red wine

Is there anything firmed up in the sources that lays down what sort of wine is to be used during the Eucharist?

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Privacy Homeland

Where lies the homeland and heartland of privacy world? Is it with canon 220 of the western codex or canon 23 of the eastern codex?

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Missiles

What are the lessons that Christian theologians can learn from Black Thursday on the 24th February 2022 and its Invasion of Ukraine?

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Behind Enemy Lines

If my memory doesn’t fail me, I recollect a movie about Kosovo once called “Behind Enemy Lines” in which a USA fighter pilot ejects over Serbian territory and hides out in a forest after being shot down by Serbians who then go on a drunken rampage to hunt for him. Is this being played out nowadays recently?

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Privacy Rights

What do the Eastern Peoples teach us about privacy in canon 23 of the Eastern Oriental Codex - is there anything different to note from the Western Codex of canon 220?

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Nella Fantasia

In what sense is the pope in Rome going to consecrate Russia to the BVM this weekend - what is the point of such an obscure ritual nowadays?

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Decennio

What was the eventual purpose of yet another Codex, in the Eastern Code of 1990, when it was first promulgated?

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For Thine

Why do Catholic Christians hive off the end of the Lord’s Prayer, the concluding doxology “for thine is the kingdom” and so on, is this not a liberty?

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HSPD

How is the traditional Feast of St Patrick celebrated in your house? Anything of note?

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Humanity

Is there any more sad a sight than the photo in today’s London Times of 3rd March 22, sipping tea here, of a captured Russian soldier-boy, being given a mobile phone by his captrix Ukrainian girl soldier and being invited to call his long-suffering mother at home in Russia, sad? Sadder still? Yet all somehow heart-warming, n’est-ce pas, as Rafe Hubris says it out

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