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Cathy Caridi, J.C.L. - who has written 58 posts on Catholic Exchange.


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Do Converts Have to be Rebaptized?

Posted on 11 March 2010

Q: My coworker is in an RCIA program, and is going to become a Catholic at Easter. She was raised Presbyterian. She told me that she doesn’t need to be baptized in the Catholic Church, because she already was baptized

Will the Woman Who Attacked the Pope Be Punished?

Posted on 25 February 2010

Q1: I read a Vatican news report that said the woman who knocked the Pope down at Midnight Mass on Christmas will be judged by a Vatican court. What will most likely happen to her? –Andrew

Q2: The papers say

Can a Bishop Forbid a Priest to Say Mass?

Posted on 11 February 2010

Q: Some women in our diocese have started a prayer-group, and somehow they got on the wrong side of the bishop, who has told them privately to tone it down. Among other things, they wanted a priest who’s not from

Does a Catholic Wedding Have to be Held in a Catholic Church?

Posted on 28 January 2010

Q: My daughter is getting married in June, to another Catholic. Our assistant pastor already agreed to perform the wedding, which will take place in our parish church. But now my daughter is thinking she’d rather have the wedding in

Canon Law and Donations to the Church

Posted on 14 January 2010

Q: My elderly mother is thinking about making a big donation to the parish school, or maybe leaving it in her will. All of her children went there and some of her grandchildren. Lately they’ve been complaining that the school

Canon Law and “Catholic” Organizations

Posted on 31 December 2009

Q1: How come the pro-abortion group “Catholics for Choice” gets away with calling itself a Catholic organization? Why doesn’t the Church stop it from using this name? -Dale

Q2: There’s a school in our diocese that is run

Bishops, Archbishops, and Cardinals

Posted on 17 December 2009

Q: What’s the difference between a bishop and an archbishop? And why are some archbishops addressed as “Cardinal” but others aren’t? -Jackie

A: On the surface, it certainly can seem that members of the Catholic hierarchy fill identical…

Can Catholic Children Receive the Last Rites?

Posted on 03 December 2009

Q: Some years ago, a good friend’s two-year-old daughter died of a congenital problem. Only recently she told me that when the priest came to see them all in the hospital when the girl was dying, they asked him to…

Can a Priest Ever Return to the Lay State?

Posted on 12 November 2009

Q: I thought once a man was ordained a priest, he is always a priest. So how is it that some priests get permission to leave the priesthood and get married? Sometimes you hear about somebody being a “former

Confession by Appointment and Face-to-Face

Posted on 29 October 2009

Q1: We just moved, and our new parish doesn’t have set confession times. The bulletin says “confessions by appointment.” My wife doesn’t think that’s a violation of our right to receive the sacrament, since the priest will hear our confessions…

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