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Should I leave the Church because of my homosexuality?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
When does gossip become a mortal sin?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
Was our RCIA director right to say that making the sign of the cross after Communion is improper?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
Is the power of your prayers lost or diminished if your mind wanders while praying?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
Did the Church change its doctrine during the Counter-Reformation?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
At Communion, my priest says, "Receive Jesus Christ" instead of "The body of Christ." Is this OK?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
I don't like the Novus Ordo but don't have weekly access to the Old Mass. Is it a sin not to go every week?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
My non-Catholic husband claims that the Eucharist should make me a better Christian than he is. Is that so?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
Can someone with a mortally sinful addiction, who does not have many opportunities to confess, receive Communion?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
What are the rules for dipping the consecrated host into the precious blood?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.

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"In the week immediately before Lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him as he then may hear by his deeds what he is to do [in the way of penance]."

~ Anglo-Saxon "Ecclesiastical Institutes" translated from Theodulphus by Abbot Aelfric about A.D. 1000; explaining the English term "shrovetide" (from "to shrive", or hear confessions) wherein the religious idea is uppermost; but before long, human nature allowed itself some exceptional licence.