I also had problems with these two, I got them right by guessing what answer they were going for, but my hang-ups are the same. PC advises the priest, but does not necessarily take over any administrative duties. Finance commission may do so, but usually PC advises priest on hiring people for administrative positions, if they get involved at all. My understanding that Finance commissions are required but rest of PC is optional. In any case, all administrative decisions are ultimate responsibility of pastor.
new research implicates the pill as factor in causing breast, liver and other cancers, with worse effects the younger a woman is when she begins using the pill. Once again, the Church is right.
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When, in the Ordinary’s judgment, a grave necessity arises, Catholic ministers may give the sacraments of Eucharist, Penance, and Anointing of the Sick to other Christians not in full communion with the Catholic Church, who ask for them of their own will, provided they give evidence of holding the Catholic faith regarding these sacraments and possess the required dispositions.241
President Bill Clinton recieved communion…he is not Catholic, but was a “special case”.What are those circumstances? I thought protestants taking communion in a Catholic Church was just a big ‘no’
I’m not saying the Church is wrong. What I am saying is that if it is for some reason like I mentioned, the Church allows the use of it. I believe there is a thread on the morality forum that talks about this. It may cause cancer and other things, I was just using that as an example.
spending too much time on this site.
bummed about are the parish council & deacons…I had no clue, & voted the way it is in the Methodist church.(Yeah, I know, but I had to make a decision somehow). Well, I’ve been humbled! :crying: I won’t tell how many I missed - but it was shameful! My only excuse is that I’m lousy at quiz’s?without commenting on this specific couple, I will offer that we vow to love each other for better or worse in sickness and in health. This may mean abstinence from marital relations for a time, or permanently until menopause. If a husband does not honor his vow, if he cannot commit to the marriage when his personal desires (not needs, sex is a desire not a need) are not being met, he has withdrawn or never fully intended his marriage vow. It is a hard fact of life that the purpose of marriage is not to satisfy the sexual demands of either party. The sex is an expression of the mutual love, a love so strong that it survives even if the means of that expression is denied.
No Priest, Bishop or even the Pope has the ability or authority to grant permission to someone allowing them to sin. The priest would be gravely wrong telling a member of the faithful to “go ahead and sin then I’ll forgive you”. I know that some priests and even Bishops do this but they will answer for it as well for the effects that it may have on those who then think it’s ok to sin under certain circumstances.
I agree. That was the worst of the answers she received. It mocks moral law.
True. There are plenty of times we are called to heroic virtue. I don’t think this was one of those times.
Gosh, good thing she or he didn’t get in some sort of automobile accident that left her paralyzed or mentally incapacitated. They might have had “to abstain from sexual relations for the rest” of their lives, ending their marriage. Would the spouse have left in these cases? If so, then it turns out the problem wasn’t with the older priest’s advise, but with the fact that they have focused their entire relationship on a dependence on sexuality.
She wasn’t paralyzed or mentally incapacitated. There are plenty of instances where God’s laws require continence, but this wasn’t one of them.
Would you bet your soul on that?