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Lourdes LOURDES BASIC R.C. BELIEF A village in France where, in 1858 (4 years after Pius IX had defined the Immaculate Conception), the Virgin Mary appeared to a peasant girl,…

Father FATHER BASIC R.C. BELIEF Jesus' command in Matthew 23:9 doesn't apply to the use of that term for the priests, but that it is merely a title that shows…

Miraculous Water MIRACULOUS WATER BASIC R.C. BELIEF There are a number of wells located in various places that are supposed to remain dry 364 days a year, but on the…

Mixed Marriages MIXED MARRIAGES BASIC R.C. BELIEF The Catholic Church has always differentiated between marriages of a Roman Catholic to a baptized or unbaptized non-Catholic. Marriages to unbaptized people weren't…

Holy Souls HOLY SOULS BASIC R.C. BELIEF People who die in a state of Grace but are burdened with venial sin or unsatisfied temporal punishment are in Purgatory. People on…

Matrimony MATRIMONY BASIC R.C. BELIEF The Catechism of the Council of Trent made it clear that the first end of marriage was not procreation (A CATHOLIC DICTIONARY OF THEOLOGY, Vol.…

Kung Kueng Hans KUNG (KUENG), HANS CATHOLIC JOURNALS From THE CATHOLIC VOICE, 12/31/79: "With the approval of Pope John Paul II, the Vatican has stripped a noted Swiss-born religious thinker,…

No Maam Thats Not History No Ma'am, That's Not History! Shirley Maclaine, Reincarnation and Scholastic Dishonesty by Stephen F. Cannon The final credits are rolling on Late Nite with David…

Henry VIII HENRY VIII by Sam Fisk Condensed from BAPTIST BULLETIN, October 1982. When the Pope visited England in 1982, the media told us the initial separation with Rome was…

Jehovas Witnesses THE OTHER JESUS of the CULTS SECTION C JEHOVA'S WITNESSES I. "The true Scriptures speak of God's Son, the Word, as 'a god'. He is a 'mighty God'…