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Quick Questions Why do we celebrate Jesus' birth on December 25?
Quick Questions How should senior citizens observe fasting and abstinence during Lent?
Quick Questions Should Christmas trees be considered a religious symbol?
Quick Questions Why is January 1 sometimes a holy day of obligation and sometimes not?
Quick Questions Why is rose used during Advent in the Advent wreath and vestments?
Quick Questions Why is the Tuesday before Lent called Shrove Tuesday, and why is Holy Thursday also called Maundy Thursday?
Quick Questions How did the Church determine that September 8 is the birthday of our Blessed Mother?
Quick Questions Should Catholics who support abortion receive ashes?
Quick Questions Why do Italians sprinkle ashes on the head, instead of marking the forehead with them?
Quick Questions What should I do about my sister's refusal to celebrate birthdays and holidays?
Quick Questions Apart from Easter's significance, is there a reason the Church initiates new catechumens then?

“What a tremendous blessing! You have come into our life just in time to defend our faith. We are growing from your great work. God bless you all.”

~ Beth, Boston, Massachusetts
 
Not Peace But a Sword
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"To become a hostage in the hands of the infidels, if that is necessary for the deliverance of Christ's faithful."

~ The fourth vow of the Order of Our Lady of Ransom (Mercedarians), founded in the thirteenth century by St. Peter Nolasco, which rescued some half-million slaves between the years 1218 and 1632.