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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 ...

  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 ...

  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 peti...

  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 cherubi...

  IS IT TRUE THAT MARY NEVER DIED? A Biblical Study of The Catechism of the Catholic Church: Bible Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions about Catholic Beliefs and Practices Full Free eBook at www.TrustworthyWord.com/catholic   Is It True That Mary Never Died? - Passages of The Catechism of the Catholic Church to Consider: “the Immaculate Virgin…was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things. ” (CCC 966) “ she shares in the glory of her Son’s Resurrection , anticipating the resurrection of all members of his Body” (CCC 974) “But while in the most Blessed Virgin the Church has already reached that perfection whereby she exists without spot or wrinkle, the faithful still strive to conquer sin and increase in holiness.  And so they turn their eyes to Mary: in her, the Church is already ‘all-holy’” (CCC 829) Is It True That Mary Never Died?  -  Scriptures to Consider: Acts 2:32–36 “ This Jesus God rai...

WAS MARY A VIRGIN HER ENTIRE LIFE? DID JESUS HAVE ANY BROTHERS? 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 ) “Was Mary a virgin her entire life?” - Important Passages of The Catechism of the Catholic Church to Consider: “led the Church to confess Mary’s real and perpetual virginity” (CCC 499) “Against this doctrine the objection is raise that the Bible mentions brother and sisters of Jesus.  The Church has always understood these passages as not referring to other children of the Virgin Mary.  In fact James and Joseph, ‘brothers of Jesus,’ are sons of another Mary , a disciple of Christ, whom St. Matthew significantly calls ‘the other Mary.’  They are close relations of Jesus , according to an Old Testament expression.” (CCC 500) “Mary ‘remained a virgin in conceiving her Son, a virgin in giving birth to him, a virgin in ...

  IS MARY THE CAUSE OF SALVATION? 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 ) “Is Mary the cause of salvation?” - Important Passages of The Catechism of the Catholic Church to Consider: “Being obedient she became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race.” (CCC 494) “Hence not a few of the early Fathers gladly assert … : ‘The knot of Eve’s disobedience was untied by Mary’s obedience: what the Virgin Eve bound through her disbelief, Mary loosened by her faith.’ Comparing her with Eve, they call Mary ‘the Mother of all living’ and frequently claim: ‘Death through Eve, life through Mary.” (CCC 494) “The Virgin Mary ‘cooperated through free faith and obedience in human salvation . … By her obedience she became the new Eve, mother of the living.” (CCC 511) “by your prayers, will deliver our souls from death” (CCC ...