Dr. RJB Answers Your Believer Questions
Have a question you are struggling to get an answer to?
Ghosts & Spectres
Ghosts - how do they arise? Do they have material extension or are they visible only to some, or what is the nature of their exterior formalities? Do pray tell.
Animal Rites
When is it permissible for a Christian Minister to conduct funeral services for deceased domestic pets of Christian Families?
Breitlings
If Breitling Angels ever did once again appear to mere men, would their question be, "Men of Galilee why are you looking up to heaven?" (Acts 1) or would their question to modernes rather be something like, "Men of Galilee why are you looking at your iphones?" Why the obsession with technology among modernes?
Hades?
Why does the Apostles Creed we say at Sunday Mass spell out the idea that Christ went to Hell after his death, and is this rather Hades the land of the undead or is it Hell the place of punishment proper? And if he did go to Hell to free the dead, why did the Just go to Hell and Hades in the first place up to the Descent of Christ into Hell?
The Things Above
Could you explain as briefly as you can for an Indiana what the words of St Paul in the Letter to the Colossians actually mean, where in Ch 3:17 he speaks of "seeking the things that are from above, not the things of earth" - what does he mean by this sort of saying?
Easterners
Having heard of an Eastern Church Wedding in your parish, I was wondering what are the differences between the western weddings and the eastern weddings in terms of the Solemnities and Rites of either and whether there is some attempt to bring the two styles together, something we might benefit from down here in Cardiff Wales GB?
Germanicum
What is the point of the Synodal Way here in the Ecclesia Germanica if all it leads to is confusion in the Church and chiefly among the rank and file?
Minorities?
Fr dear Fr: Why is it so apparent that the Catholic Church, and especially the new orthodox types of the Tim and Tay kind, seem to have a negative vision of the role of gay young people in the Church - are there any signs of progress?
Matthew 25
What do the following phrases mean in the Parable from Jesus of the Ten Bridesmaids -
- "Our lamps" are "going out"?
- "You had better go into the town and buy some more oil for yourselves." What does the church teach us about these lines from this Parable?
Creator or Sustainer?
When the Church in the Creeds says that we believe in God the Creator, does this mean a sort of once and for all Creator of the world and the cosmos and the universe once and once only, like the Big Bang Theory, or does this mean something else?
Why go on?
If Christ has redeemed us from death and sin, then how is it that we keep on sinning?