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Can a non-Catholic minister be in any way involved in a Catholic wedding inside the church?
Peggy Frye
Can a non-Catholic friend of mine can go to a priest and receive the sacrament of reconciliation? I believe he’s been baptized but has never really practiced any faith.
Jim Blackburn
Should Catholics have or make Native American dreamcatchers?
Michelle Arnold
Should I convert to Catholicism if I believe it to be true, even though it could hurt my marriage?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
May my divorced friend marry a Catholic in the Church?
Jim Blackburn
What can I say to my husband to convince him that Christmas and Easter are not pagan celebrations?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
If I was baptized Catholic but later converted to Mormonism, is my baptism still valid?
Jim Blackburn
Will my three divorces prevent me from becoming a Catholic?
Jim Blackburn

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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.