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  CAN MARRIAGES BE ANNULLED? WHAT ABOUT REMARRIAGE? The Catholic Blog - Helping people find answers to the most common questions about Catholicism with answers from the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Bible. ( www.catholic.blog ) “Can marriages be annulled?” - Important Passages of The Catechism of the Catholic Church to Consider: “The Church, after an examination of the situation by the competent ecclesiastical tribunal can declare the nullity of a marriage, i.e., that the marriage never existed .  In this case the contracting parties are free to marry, provided the natural obligations of a previous union are discharged.” (CCC 1629) “A case of marriage with disparity of cult ( between a Catholic and a non-baptized person ) requires even greater circumspection” (1633) “In the case of disparity of cult an express dispensation from this impediment is required for the validity of the marriage. (1635) “the remarriage of persons divorced from a living, lawful spouse contraven

  WILL I GO TO PURGATORY? The Catholic Blog - Helping people find answers to the most common questions about Catholicism with answers from the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Bible. ( www.catholic.blog ) “Will I go to purgatory?” - Important Passages of The Catechism of the Catholic Church to Consider: “Woe on those who will die in mortal sin!” (CCC 1014) “Grave sin deprives us of communion with God and therefore makes us incapable of eternal life” (CCC 1472) “every sin, even venial, entails an unhealthy attachment to creatures, which must be purified here on earth, or after death in a state called Purgatory ” (CCC 1472) “this purification frees one from what is called the ‘temporal punishment’ of sin” (CCC 1472) “A conversion which proceeds from a fervent charity can attain the complete purification of the sinner in such a way that no punishment would remain” (CCC 1472) “Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his deat

  SHOULD WE PRAY  TO MARY AND SAINTS? The Catholic Blog - Helping people find answers to the most common questions about Catholicism with answers from the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Bible. ( www.catholic.blog ) Merriam-Webster’s Definitions: Necromancy - the practice of talking to the spirits of dead people Medium - a person through whom other persons try to communicate with the spirits of the dead “Should we pray to Mary and Saints?” - Important Passages of The Catechism of the Catholic Church to Consider: “ We can pray with and to her.  The prayer of the Church is sustained by the prayer of Mary” (CCC 2679) “prayer unites us in the Church with the Mother of Jesus” (CCC 2673) “the Churches developed their prayers to the holy Mother of God” (CCC 2675) “in countless hymns and antiphons expressing this prayer…entrusts the supplications and praises of the children of God to the Mother of Jesus” (CCC 2675) “we can entrust all our cares and petitions to her:

  ARE IMAGES AND STATUES OF  JESUS, SAINTS, ANGELS, OR MARY HELPFUL OR HARMFUL? DO RELICS AND ROSARIES  HAVE SPIRITUAL POWER? The Catholic Blog - Helping people find answers to the most common questions about Catholicism with answers from the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Bible. ( www.catholic.blog ) Merriam-Webster’s Definitions to Consider: How similar are these terms? Icon - “an object of uncritical devotion; a religious image usually painted on a small wooden panel” Idol - “an object of extreme devotion; a greatly loved or admired person; a picture or object that is worshipped as a god” “Are Catholic images helpful or harmful? Do relics and rosaries have power?” - Important Passages of The Catechism of the Catholic Church to Consider: “in the Old Testament, God ordained or permitted the making of images that pointed symbolically toward salvation by the incarnate Word; so it was with the bronze serpent, the ark of the covenant, and the cherubim” (CCC 2129)