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#12507 Why is This Bishop Banning Altar Rails? - Tom Nash

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“Why Did the Charlotte Diocese Bishop Banning Altar Rails?” This question opens a discussion on the various practices surrounding Communion, including the history of receiving in the hand versus kneeling and the implications of obedience to bishops. Other topics include the fate of those who died before the Resurrection and the Church’s view on civil marriages.

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Questions Covered:

  • 01:44 – What’s the history of receiving in the hand vs, kneeling, and why would a bishop want to promote one over the other? How Are We Allowed to receive communion? Is Obedience Owed to the bishop here?
  • 13:28 – Did anyone who died before the Resurrection go to Purgatory?
  • 15:55 – What does the Church think of marriages that are just done civilly? What does an invalid marriage mean?
  • 20:49 – In the reading of the Genealogy of Christ, why are there only two women mentioned?
  • 23:30 – Why do Catholics worship Mary and the saints by praying to them?
  • 32:55 – If someone is married by the Church and divorced civilly, are they in perpetual sin until one of them dies?
  • 37:30 – What is the US Bishops stance on receiving the Eucharist through intinction?
  • 43:05 – I was baptized Catholic but not raised Catholic after that. My parents are atheist. But I’d like to learn about being a practicing Catholic because I am drawn toward it.
  • 49:40 – How long are you supposed to pray for a loved one in Purgatory?
  • 52:39 – What happens to the victims of people victimized in a satanic dark mass? Do they go to hell?
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