What do Catholics believe about Purgatory?

Loren, a reader, asked some honest questions about Catholic beliefs. The last question, of this batch, is on Purgatory.
Q: I can’t find anything about purgatory in the Bible. Jesus said in the Bible, that He who hears His word and believes in Him who sent Him, has everlasting life, and will not be judged, but [...]

What do Catholics believe about penance?

Loren, a reader, asked some honest questions about Catholic beliefs. The fourth question is on penance.
Q: I can’t find anything in the Bible about penance. The Bible does say that God’s forgiveness is a free gift we receive by turning away from our wrong ways and accepting it through believing in Jesus as our Lord [...]

What do Catholics believe about confession?

Loren, a reader, asked some honest questions about Catholic beliefs. I have chosen to write separate posts in response to her questions, for the benefit of keeping the topics separate and make it less confusing, and for the benefit of future readers.
Loren’s third question is on confession.
Q: Why must sins be confessed to priests? In [...]

What do Catholics believe about Mary?

Loren, a reader, asked some honest questions about Catholic beliefs. As replying to them in the comments section would result in too long a reply, and may result in confusion later on, I decided to respond to her questions in the main blog.
Loren’s first question is on the Virgin Mary.
Q: Mary the physical mother of [...]

Question: How old is the Old Mass?

I have heard, in the past two weeks or so, many arguments in support for the Old Mass. However, one striking similarity is that people’s memories of the Old Mass seem to make it appear as though the Old Mass had never experienced any change since the time of Pope Pius [...]

Question: What are plenary indulgences?

Plenary indulgence offered for World Day of the Sick
Feb. 6, 2007 (CWNews.com) - The Vatican has announced a plenary indulgence for Catholics who, under the usual conditions, participate in prayer services for the World Day of the Sick: February 11, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.
The same plenary [...]

Questions about God

A young man had gone overseas to study for quite a long time. When he returned, he asked his parents to find him a religious scholar or any expert who could answer his three questions. Finally, his parents were able to find a scholar.
Young man: Who are you? Can you answer [...]

Question: If Catholics eat the body of Christ, doesn’t that make them cannibals?

A theological understanding of transubstantiation is required to answer this question. I’ll make it simple, because I don’t really like or understand much philosophy, and I think, neither do you.
Everything has a substance and a form. A human person has a substance and a form as well. For a normal living [...]

Question: Why is the Catholic Church against homosexual unions?

Why do vegetarians eat mock meat? There are two kinds of vegetarians. One kind is those who freely choose to be vegetarians for one reason or another. This kind who tend not to eat mock meat, unless they are looking for some variety. Even so, mock meat is not a common part of their diet.
The [...]

Question: What makes a human, human?

My best friend’s wife used to keep a couple of bunnies, one male, one female, both unsterilised. Recently, the female gave birth to six baby bunnies on Dec 6 last year. Having realised the difficulty in giving them away, she decided to put a fence between the male and female bunnies rather than have them [...]