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

 

 

• I have a family member that attended a funeral of a lesbian friend whose wife had died. Is it a sin for this family member to have attended the funeral for the deceased lesbian? On one hand, we are to comfort the sorrowful, but on the other hand, we are to admonish the sinner. I'm not sure what the correct answer is here.
• Does the church allow Josephite marriages?
• Can you explain Luke 14:26? ("If any man comes to me, without hating his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yes, and his own life too, he can be no disciple of mine.")
• I have a Catholic friend who attends a Yoga class. If Catholics cannot practice Yoga, how do I talk to her about this without disrupting the friendship? Also, the class is supposedly held at a Catholic church. Is this a red flag?
• What is the reason why, in a Solemn Pontifical High Mass, the Bishop wears his gloves in the procession towards the altar, but does not when the Mass ends and he processes?
• How would you recommend we go about loving others as instructed by Christ?
• Could Fr. Romanoski recommend a few good Bible commentaries?
• If we were to discover alien life on another planet (other than the microbes we have already found), would that "disprove" what was said in the Bible? It doesn't say anything about extraterrestrial life, does it?
• Could you clear up a debate that I have with family members? Is there salvation outside the Catholic Church?
• My company sells mostly food. Every day they throw away a lot of food, especially meat, vegetables and fruits. They're still good but they can't sell it anymore to customers. So, they throw it into big bins and some other company takes it and probably uses it to make biomass or something. We can't take any of this food officially, as it's forbidden by our company, and I used to do it very often. Can you tell me if that can be justified?

 

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