Table of Contents- 150 Questions

Chapter 1 – Catholic Doctrine

God and Creation

1. The question of the “filioque”

2. “Hurting God”

3. The beginning of evil

4. Did Adam and Eve exist?

5. Adam and Eve’s offspring

6. The Church and evolution

Jesus Christ

7. The virgin birth of Christ

8. Jesus’ knowledge of his divinity

9. Why Christ died on the Cross

10. “Why have you forsaken me?”

11. The death and Resurrection of Christ

12. Who is responsible for the death of Jesus?

13. Christ’s descent into “hell”

14. Did Jesus appear to his mother?

15. Christ’s body after the Resurrection

The Church and Salvation

16. The Old Testament and the Church

17. Salvation and the Catholic Church

18. Is everyone saved?

19. The Pope and Catholic teaching

20. Ex Cathedra statements and infallibility

21. Infallibility of the bishops

22. Imprimaturs

23. Eastern Catholic Churches

The Last Things

24. Does the Church believe in Limbo?

25. The belief in purgatory

26. Why should there be purgatory?

27. The Communion of Saints

28. The Last Judgment

29. The resurrection of the body

30. A new heaven and a new earth

The Blessed Virgin Mary

31. Mary, Mother of God

32. The Immaculate Conception

33. The conception of Mary

34. Mary’s perpetual virginity

35. The marriage of Mary and Joseph

36. Our Lady’s life after the Ascension

37. Did Mary die before her Assumption?

38. Mary, Mediatrix

39. Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany and the sinful woman

Chapter 2 – The Sacraments and Sacramentals

Baptism and Confirmation

40. Sponsors for sacraments

41. The age for Confirmation

The Real Presence in the Eucharist

42. The Eucharist and the Creed

43. The real presence in the Eucharist

44. Jesus’ words and the real presence

45. The substance and appearances of the Eucharist

46. The tabernacle and Eucharistic piety

47. Concerts in churches

The Mass

48. Dress for Mass

49. Mass intentions

50. The colour of the vestments

51. Dressing the altar and cleansing the vessels

52. The use of the Creed

53. Why water in the wine?

54. Standing in the Eucharistic Prayer

55. The Sign of Peace

56. Masses for deceased baptised infants

57. Gregorian Masses

58. Funerals and purgatory

59. Funeral eulogies

60. Words of remembrance at funerals

Holy Communion

61. The divorced and Communion

62. Communion of non-Catholics

63. Communion of non-Catholics at a wedding

64. Communion in an Orthodox church

65. Fasting before Communion

66. Exceptions to the Eucharistic fast

67. Communion after a serious sin

68. Confession before Communion

69. Sign of reverence before receiving Communion

70. “Taking” Communion?

71. Communion in the hand or on the tongue?

72. Communion by intinction

73. Particles of the host

74. Duration of the Eucharistic presence

75. Thanksgiving after Communion

76. Communion twice a day

Penance and Indulgences

77. Why a sacrament of reconciliation?

78. Frequent confession

79. General Confession

80. The Third Rite of Reconciliation

81. Indulgences

82. Plenary indulgences and heaven

83. Indulgences for the souls in purgatory

Anointing of the Sick

84. Who can be anointed?

85. Confession before anointing the sick

86. Anointing of the Sick administered to an unconscious person

Marriage

87. Marriage “in the Church”

88. Marrying relatives

89. Validation of an invalid marriage

90. Children of a mixed marriage

91. Celibacy after divorce

92. Admission to the Church of the divorced and remarried

Holy Orders

93. A priest forever?

94. Priestly celibacy

95. Married clergy

96. The ordination of women

Sacramentals

97. What are sacramentals?

Chapter 3 - Christian Moral Issues

General moral questions

98. The role of conscience

99. The concept of merit

100. Mortal sin and the “fundamental option”

Relations with God

101. “Fear of the Lord”

102. Using “bad language”

103. Sins against the Holy Spirit

104. The Sabbath Day

105. Keeping holy the Sabbath

106. Mass and Communion services

107. Attending Sunday Mass in other parishes

108. Pius X Society Masses

109. The Easter Duty

110. Disposing of blessed objects

Relations with our neighbour

111. Catholics and the Masons

112. Chain letters

113. Suicide and eternal salvation

114. Organ transplants

115. The death penalty

116. Homosexuality and the Bible

117. The morality of gambling

118. Voting issues

Chapter 4 – Christian Prayer and Devotions

Christian Prayer

119. The efficacy of prayer

120. The mediation of Mary and the saints

121. Why pray to the saints?

122. Perseverance in prayer

123. Meditation and contemplation

124. The Sign of the Cross

125. “Lead us not into temptation”

126. The Doxology of the “Our Father”

127. The “Amen” after the “Our Father”

Devotion to Jesus, Mary and the Saints

128. Devotion to the Sacred Heart

129. Mary, Help of Christians

130. The “Regina Coeli”

131. The origin of the Rosary

132. October, month of the Rosary

133. The family Rosary

134. The devotion of the five First Saturdays

135. The Miraculous Medal

136. The origin of the scapular

137. The prayer to St Michael

138. Devotion to the guardian angels

139. Prayer for the Holy Souls

Liturgical Seasons and Feasts

140. The meaning of Advent

141. The origin of Christmas

142. The meaning of Epiphany

143. The origin of Lent

144. What to do for Lent

145. The spirit of fasting

146. Friday Penance

147. Holy Water in Lent

148. Veneration of the Cross on Good Friday

149. Divine Mercy Sunday

150. The feast of Corpus Christi