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Canonical
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Anathemas of Council
of Trent
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Cardinal Ratzinger's
overturning of excommunication decree
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Contact with
apostates: permitted?
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Disciplinary
laws: Are they infallible?
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Dispensation of
religious in a modernist community
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Freemasonry &
the Church
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Saturday Vigil instead of Sunday
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SSPX & jurisdiction
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SSPX & the Ordinary
Magisterium
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Masses of Thuc-line
priests
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Pro multis
issue: the change of "for many" to "for all"
in the New Mass, is it lawful?
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Quo Primum
& infallibility
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Liturgical |
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English hymns during
Mass
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Filioque
removal in Eastern Rites
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Months
of the liturgical year
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National
flag in sanctuary
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Quo
Primum & St. Joseph in the Canon
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Suppression
of octaves & vigils in 1955
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Sacred
vessels & linens
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Women
in the choir; parts I & II
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Moral |
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Medical |
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"Cadaveric"
transplantation
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Cloned babies for
experiments
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Donating
organs
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Ectopic
pregnancy
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Hydration /
Nutrition withdrawal
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Nurses
& birth control medications
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Sterilization
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Vaccines made from aborted fetuses
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Vatican's
statement on vaccines made from aborted fetuses
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Miscellaneous |
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Is
smoking marijuana or doing drugs a sin?
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Buying or selling
on Sunday
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Cremation
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Drinking soft
drinks a sin?
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Drunkenness
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Folk
guitar music for income
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Hunger Strikes: are they permissible?
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Just war (with
Iraq)
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Living with
boyfriend (treatment of daughter)
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Natural Family
Planning
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Nuclear weapons:
can their use be justified?
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Planning
for retirement
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Refusal
of marriage debt
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Sending
children to a Protestant school
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Slavery
and the American Civil War
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Standard
of dress for men
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Studying
on Sunday
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Teaching
in public school
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Sacramental |
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Canon 844 re: Holy
Communion
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Celiac disease and
the Host
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Confession once a year
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Confession:
mentioning membership in Third Order, etc.
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Consecration of
Blessed Sacrament by a heretic
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Gaining
indulgences
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Intention and validity
of sacraments
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Lay
Baptism
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Limiting
number of children before marriage
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Marriage
of a fallen-away Catholic
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Mass: Hearing
more than one at a time
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Protestant baptisms: valid?
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Refusal of Holy
Communion: criteria necessary
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Visiting a Catholic cemetery: its
benefits
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Theological |
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Adam & Eve:
Original Sin and Sanctifying Grace
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Apologetic for a
"born-again"
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Baptism by a heretic
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"Blessed
are the poor in spirit" Matt 5:3 explained
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Brother of
Jesus?
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BVM divine?
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Canonization Process
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Charity: does it exist in the after
life?
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Collegiality
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Consecration at the
New Mass
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Ecumenism
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Existence of Hell
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Father & Holy Ghost
suffer Passion with Jesus?
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Free Will & Prayer
Requests Fulfilled
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Genesis 3:15
(different translations of) ?
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Isaiah 45, 7
explained
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Liberalism
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Limbo and unbaptized
babies
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Mary, the Mother of
God
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Papal teachings vs.
infallibility
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Parents duty to teach
catechism
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Protestant baptism
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Pope & Oath of
fidelity to tradition
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Pope John XIII &
the beatific vision
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Quo Primum
& representation of the Catholic Faith
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Salvation of
unrepented apostate
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Sedevacantists
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Suffering souls in Purgatory: can they
pray for us?
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Universal
salvation
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Adoration of Wood of
Cross, but not of Mary
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Traditional |
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Alcoholics Anonymous &
traditional Catholics
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Concerts
in church
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Conciliar Church (is
there now a)
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Conditional
Confirmation and Baptism & SSPX
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Confession to a Novus Ordo priest
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Children praying (the
teaching of)
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Diocesan annulment
tribunals & SSPX
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Fatima consecration
of Russia: Has it been accomplished?
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Feministic movement
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Lack of unity in
Catholic Tradition
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Leonine Prayers for Conversion of
Russia
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Novus Ordo Missae: Is it valid, it it a sacrilege, can I attend it if nothing else is
available?
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Post-Conciliar Church:
A New Religion?
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SSPX & Nocturnal
Adoration in the home
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SSPX priests not
assigned to country that speaks their language
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SSPX: "We
are not the Church"
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St. Michael the
Archangel prayer
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Submission of wives
to husbands & modern society
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Tithing: must we
give 10%?
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TV in home: is
it a sin?
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Women Doctors of the Church
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Vocations in Catholic
Tradition: why so few?
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