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  1. bosniakandjewishfriendship says:
    August 20, 2010 at 11:48 pm

    In response to your article “WHAT IF?”

    Serbs are already doing that. They are building Serbian Orthodox Churches in near vicinity of the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial. Please read it here: http://www.instituteforgenocide.ca/serb-crosses-over-srebrenica-by-daniel-toljaga/

    It’s a shame!

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  2. Sophia Origer says:
    September 27, 2010 at 1:04 pm

    Susan, My daughter is a baptised catholic and her fiance is muslim. Are they able to marry? I have been reading some articles online that it is not allowed by the Catholic church. Would they ever be allowed to be married in a catholic church? Thank you.

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  3. LeAnn says:
    October 18, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    Susan, could you explain what the Intercessors of the Lamb did that was disobeying the Bishop? When I went to hear Father Corapi speak in Omaha, quite a lot of them were attending and I can’t imagine that anyone who would sit through a lesson from Father Corapi would dare disobey their Bishop. Thanks!

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  4. Susan Kehoe says:
    October 18, 2010 at 3:33 pm

    Hi LeAnn,
    It appears that the leaders of the group refused to implement reforms. Here is the explanation: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/omaha-archbishop-shuts-down-intercessors-of-the-lamb/

    I hope that it helps.

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  5. Lynnette Carson says:
    September 10, 2011 at 11:03 am

    Does a Deacon’s wife have to be Catholic?

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    • Susan Kehoe says:
      January 16, 2012 at 3:18 pm

      There is not a set rule that I am aware of. But the wife of the deacon candidate has to give her consent in writing to the bishop. Also I suspect that having a non Catholic wife is an obstacle.

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  6. susan says:
    January 15, 2012 at 8:42 pm

    What is aDeacon? I thought Catholics had priests who are not married

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  7. Ana says:
    March 20, 2012 at 11:18 pm

    Dear Susan, I am trying to validate my marriage. My husband is a Christian orthodox. I have read everything required for validating a mixed marriage at a catholic church.Then, I found out that As a general rule, the Orthodox do not allow their faithful to be married in a non-Orthodox ceremony. http://www.usccbpublishing.org/client/client_pdfs/7-050BI.pdf If I get married in an orthodox church, is this marriage valid for me as a catholic? After the orthodox wedding ceremony, can We have a blessing or a vow renew or anything in my catholic parish?

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    • Susan Kehoe says:
      March 21, 2012 at 8:30 am

      Ana,
      I am checking with a cannon lawyer. As soon as he responds, I will let you know.
      God bless,
      Susan Kehoe

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      • Susan Kehoe says:
        March 21, 2012 at 10:42 am

        Hi Ana,
        I have received an answer. According to cannon law, it would be a valid marriage, but there are a few conditions that must be met. First, both Churches must give their permission. Second, since most Orthodox Churches insist that the celebrant be an Orthodox priest, you will need to obtain a dispensation from from your bishop.
        It is possible to have your marriage validated–if you are not permitted to have a Catholic clergy member preside, but you will have to go through the normal marriage preparation requirements.
        I suggest that the best way for you to proceed is for you to talk to your Pastor and that your fiance talks to his priest.

        Hope this helps.
        God Bless,
        Susan

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    • Susan Kehoe says:
      October 14, 2023 at 2:36 pm

      Hi Bonnie,
      As Catholics we understand that all revelation comes through Jesus Christ. It comes through Scripture and the Tradition of the Church. The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains Mary’s Immaculate Conception:
      490 To become the mother of the Savior, Mary “was enriched by God with gifts appropriate to such a role.”132 The angel Gabriel at the moment of the annunciation salutes her as “full of grace”.133 In fact, in order for Mary to be able to give the free assent of her faith to the announcement of her vocation, it was necessary that she be wholly borne by God’s grace.
      491 Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, “full of grace” through God,134 was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854:
      The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.135
      492 The “splendor of an entirely unique holiness” by which Mary is “enriched from the first instant of her conception” comes wholly from Christ: she is “redeemed, in a more exalted fashion, by reason of the merits of her Son”.136 The Father blessed Mary more than any other created person “in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places” and chose her “in Christ before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless before him in love”.137
      493 The Fathers of the Eastern tradition call the Mother of God “the All-Holy” (Panagia), and celebrate her as “free from any stain of sin, as though fashioned by the Holy Spirit and formed as a new creature”.138 By the grace of God Mary remained free of every personal sin her whole life long.
      “Let it be done to me according to your word. . .”
      494 At the announcement that she would give birth to “the Son of the Most High” without knowing man, by the power of the Holy Spirit, Mary responded with the obedience of faith, certain that “with God nothing will be impossible”: “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be [done] to me according to your word.”139 Thus, giving her consent to God’s word, Mary becomes the mother of Jesus. Espousing the divine will for salvation wholeheartedly, without a single sin to restrain her, she gave herself entirely to the person and to the work of her Son; she did so in order to serve the mystery of redemption with him and dependent on him, by God’s grace:140
      Hope this helps, God bless

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