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Questions Why

s it always and everywhere wrong to ask questions on faith issues or the bible?

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Suffering

What is the purpose of God creating the universe if little children have to suffer so much?

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La Musique

Is there any real sense in my own once-proposed but undefended Master's thesis that music can be a font of healing in the Church, that some pieces of music can be useful as a healing art for life's many ills and depressions and sullen moods?

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Famines & Plagues

How is it that the Church, and here I am speaking of the principal church in the West, the Catholic Church, can produce endless decrees on viruses and vaccines, and yet neglect the suffering of the starving children in Yemen?

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Quahal

Who really did establish the Church, was it Jesus or Judas or Peter or Paul and Apollo, who precisely?

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Time

What is the purpose of Time, if Christians have only sought to understand the concept in recent years?

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Va.dot.com

Who instructed the new pope to be so resolute when dealing with the precarious state of the Vatican finances? Is there something that he can learn from the British Church on this matter?

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Anonymous?

In the anglican sector there is confession available in some parishes but generally it is always face to face with the vicar knowing who you are, is it possible to have a right to being anonymous if I choose to come over to the Catholic Way?

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What is History?

If it is true that a stopped clock shows the correct time twice a day, and that there are some hills worth dying on for moderne journalists like the boys of GBNTV, then what to say about the occupation of history by the Woke historians of late in California? Are they right about the ongoing march of history, or must we wait for another

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R

Does the name RB mean anything distinctive in the media or is it just a popular epithet that is occasionally mocked up by newspapers?

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Royal Over-Seas League

Is there anything like the old victorian secret societies of Latium and Rome and Padua here in the Western Islands, secret societies for instance dedicated to the promotion and conservation and survival of monarchies, wherein young Christian men and young women can become Blues and Royals, as methinks is the name for such agents, or am I being too adventurous like the Scarlet Pimpernel?

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To Vax or Not to Vax

You have a soothing manner like Dr Karol Sikora, so I was wondering if I might ask a controversial question - Should, as Alistair Haimes now suggests, the unvaccinated who freely choose not to be vaccinated, pay the full costs of their treatment once they are admitted to hospital?

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Two Hats

Am I the only person in your extended internet parish community out here in New Spain that is not alarmed and appalled by the new presidency and its divisive rhetoric of late especially after the Rittenhaus Verdict?

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Abdication?

We in the Church of England are very close to our monarchy, and I was wondering if from your catholic parish point of view, whether there is any mileage in the idea that the Queen should now abdicate in favour of Charles, or maybe in favour of William if Charles is too eccentric a king?

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Romanitas

Is there any truth in the theory now current among populists that when the two Roman empires were baptized, the Church catholique embraced what Jesus had rejected?

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Darwin

Did Charles Darwin know that his theories about Evolution in the human race would make some people in America and England eventually end up losing their faith in God?

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Free Will

If human beings really do possess a free will faculty, how is that God can somehow keep his promises?

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Leo

I read somewhere, I don't think it was in a book or anything, but somewhere that Pope Leo XIII once had a spiritual experience in which he overheard Satan asking God for Dominion over the human race for 75-100 years, and that Satan was then unchained for a hundred years when God eventually acceded to this demand and request.

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Free

Would God have sent his Son to save the world from its sins, if humanity had not in fact needed saving?

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In Germania

Is the German Church going through another Reformation at the moment?

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