Apologetics

Habit QUESTION from Anon September 22, 2001 Why don't religious wear their religious habit anymore? I met a sister of St Joesep of wicetha with earings eyelash and lipstick, just to name a few accesories!!! Is this not horrible? where has the vow of poverty gone too? What does your community wear? The men a women? Thanks! ANSWER by John-Paul Ignatius, OLSM...

Placing of Sign of Peace during Mass QUESTION from Doug June 20, 2001 Why do we place the greeting between members of the audience during the middle of the Eucharistic Liturgy when the bread and wine has already been transubstantiated? Shouldn't we place it before the transubstantiation so that we are focusing on the Blessed Sacrament and not the people around us?...

extreme unction and prayers for healing QUESTION from Kate on January 3, 2003 I realize this is not the history forum, but that is closed. I am a non-Catholic writer, researching a historical novel to be set in the late 13th century. I know unction was already practiced as a sacrament by that date, but was it in the same general form...

birth control QUESTION from steve September 24, 2001 when will the church change the backward and NON INFALLIBLE teaching on birht control?? ANSWER by John-Paul Ignatius, OLSM on September 28, 2001 My dear deluded Mr. Steve: Only someone with great ignorance or demonic delusion would call birth control a backward teaching. All Christian faiths on the planet considered contraception a sin until...

Musical instruments in liturgy QUESTION from Adrian G. Bruley June 26, 2001 In a question from Mr. Antonio Basto dated June 14, 2001 you addressed the use of musical instruments in liturgy, principally the piano and you referred to a church document Tra Le Sollicitudini and paragraph 19 of that document. My questions is: While this document clearly prohibits the use of...

Luminous Mysteries QUESTION from Mary on January 4, 2003 Dear Bro. Ignatius, I need your help, again. For many years now I have used Father Peyton's Rosary Prayer book as a guide in meditation upon the 15 Mysteries. With the addition of the Luminous Mysteries to the Rosary in October, I had hoped to find similarly-styled meditations that would enable me to...