Dr. RJB Answers Your Believer Questions

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Dr Richard Barrett Dr Richard Barrett

Refusals

I was refused a couple of anointing blessings when I went into the operating theatre for some operations, both of which did not end very well as they were not without fault, so in this case in the case of such refusals do I have the right to go elsewhere for my parish anointing blessings before operations?

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While I perfectly understand that a pope and indeed any pope is only infallible when teaching consciously about faith or custom, with an intent to define, what do you consider to have been the 3 biggest mistakes of the Francesco Era?

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Rubrics

At the risk of introducing a discussion about the legal norms around the Eucharist called rubrica, might I humbly petition for some illumination on why, during some of my locale Zoom masses on my computer screen, there are some of the younger clergy who bless and consecrate the wine of the chalice with a cover or pall on top of it, even during the epiclesis of the Consecratory Prayer? As I mistaken to invoke the rubrica laws of the divine Mysteries?

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Second Advent

A Quaesitum from Bath – If it be true that Jesus died once and for all for us and for sin, why do we believe in a Second Coming and then a Final Judgement? Surely these are superfluous concepts if the sacrifice is all sufficient?

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NSA, RCIA

How does the Christian religion hope to respond to the problem posed by greater and greater company and government surveillance of phones now and formerly of computers – is there any rest for the just?

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Modernity

Are we all sitting ducks and missing something quite fundamental here?

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Gentle?

Going on from the sword and fire statements of the Lord as king of kings or rex regum, why are we to be as gentle as doves but as clever as serpents?

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Jumping for Jesus

Is there any truth in the rumour that the early Christians were all charismatics to a man, and believed in dancing for Jesus during the Eucharistic banquets and shared meals?

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Au Naturelle

I was having Afternoon Tea at the Royal Over Seas League and listening to an anglican bishop from Africa who was confidently brimming with pride that all his clergy below him are fully paid up members of the natural law

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Anonymous

How did the Church feel about poisoned pen letters sent up to superiors and bishops in the past, is there any information about these sorts of things in our distant history?

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Cruising

Is there any opportunity for parish singing in your parishes nowadays, since our local cleric said he received some insurance directives from his diocese and he then announced no singing and shut up shop and went on a cruise to the Gulf?

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USSR.eu or USA.eu?

What is the structural Template for the structures and institutes and states of the Eu - is it the USSR as Dr Malvic has recently said at a Eurasia Forum, or is it the grand old dame of the USA?

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Life after 70

Is there a reason why the Old Testament Bible fixes the length of an average life span at 70 or 80 for those who are strong?

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Ex-calice-burr - Excalibur

If it is true that Jesus said, “I have come not to bring peace on earth but a sword,” then are we to understand that only Christ can wield a sword, a sword of power?

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Enter Stage Left

Why on earth would a reigning and serving Pope urge Christians and Seculars to take vaccines that are tainted with human material from aborted foetuses? Is he not committing a very grave, the gravest of apostasies, as the legal philosopher Bro Paul of Rutland of Nottingham diocese explains so well, whatever the assurances on material and formal agency offered by the new pope and his teams at the CDF under the new Jesuit superior of that Inquisition? Am I correct?

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End of Days - the movie?

Are we living in the End Times described by modern mystics of a post-christian kind? Any indicators from scripture or theology?

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The AC?

Did Bp V actually just say that the new pope is an Anti-Christ? Or is this just a hearing problem at Taylor Marshall dot inc? Crosswires here or is this a sign of decay, decline, degeneration?

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Borders

Why do my parish clergy have dealings with some sick and housebound and elderly and not with others of my ilk?

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Hades Part Deux

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?

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Coercion?

In my booklet here De Sanctionibus by Fr Velasio, it states that the Catholic Church retains an ancient power of coercion, is this really true or is this just hyperbole?

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