Fr. Jonathan Romanoski, FSSP is Pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Providence, Rhode Island. He was ordained in 2008.

 

 

• If a young couple or middle-aged couple (NOT elderly) cannot have children and it is too expensive to adopt, what are the potential benefits of their marriage?
• What is the difference between the ordinary and extraordinary Magisterium?
• Is it OK for me to go against my Catholic family and marry an atheist woman (who has no desire or willingness to convert) of whom they disapprove? Would it be a sin to marry someone I love even if everyone tells me not to?
• What would be your best argument/explanation as to why Holy Communion should only be received from consecrated hands and while kneeling and on the tongue?
• Pontius Pilate washed his hands to denote his not having anything to do with putting Jesus through the crucifixion. Does the washing of the hands of the priest during Mass denote the opposite?
• During the prayer, "Dominus vobiscum," what is the significance of the priest moving his palms apart chest-width, then joining them together again?
• I have celiac disease and can not ingest gluten or wheat. I have not taken communion because of this. So, taking into account transubstantiation, will this cancel out (if you will) the whole gluten issue, thus making it "safe" to consume and take communion normally?
• When visiting loved ones in a cemetery, what prayers would you recommend?
• If God forgives everyone, why do we need Hell? If He forgives everyone, why punish people with Hell? Is there forgiveness or not?
• If divorce is a public sin, how come all divorcees remain eligible to receive Holy Communion?
• Was Jesus crucified naked or clothed? Does this hold any significance?

 

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