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1. Is it a sin if you did something as a child and didn't know it was a sin at the time...but later in life you relized that it was....Was it a sin?
2. How can I get a friend to believe that all the suffering in the world is not because God is not real?
3. When we die does our personality go with us, or is everyone the same in the after-life?
4. I've heard that there are books that didn't get put into the bible. Why?
5. What is the difference between a mortal sin and a venial sin, and where are they mentioned in the bible?
6. God sent Gabriel the archangel down from heven to send the Holy Spirt on Mary to be conceived, but God is the Father and you would think that you would see a little bit of his genes in Jesus. But how can that be if God is spirt. Or did mary give him all his genes?
7. Have there been any new aprititations of Mary latley that have been confirmed?
8. What happens to babies if they die in utero (before being born) or before they are baptized? Do they become angels?
9. I've heard there was a specific, religious reason for the persecution of the Jews and all the bad things that happened to them. Is this right? and if so, what is the reason exactly?
10. What is the difference between dating and courting?  What are the tidbit details of each?  Some of my friends like people of the opposite sex more than others, but does that mean that they should go out?  Some of my other friends say that you don't have to date to find your lifelong partner, but I don't see how you can find one otherwise.  Is dating or courting for fun ok in the Christian sense?
11. What does charismatic mean?  Is there a difference between the Charismatic Center and other churches?
12. Fr. Keating will be giving a lecture at our parish on Centering Prayer.    Do you anything about him or Centering Prayer?  
13. How do we know what is a sin.  Is it just violations against the 10 Commandments, or is there more?
14. Non-Catholic Christians can still get into heaven right? So how does it justify the part when Jesus said "If you do not eat my flesh and drink my blood, then you have no life within you"?  Can they still get into heaven because God's church was not intended to split, so everyone "Catholic" would have Life within them, and because God is so merciful?
15. How can I defend the fact that purgatory is for cleansing our soul as well as punishment for our sins if God does not remember our sins, as said in scripture?
16. Do non-Catholics attend confession?
17. Are ghosts for real?
18. Why should we look to the Church for authority?  Isn't the Bible the source of authority for a Christian?
19. It seems like non-Catholic Christians have their act together better than the Catholic Church.  If The Catholic Church is the true Church founded by Christ, why doesn't it appear so when you compare the two?
20. In the film Stigmata at the end it states that some documents are being kept secret by the Vatican.  These are writings from Jesus that state a formal Church is not what Jesus intended as well as contradicting other Catholic teachings.  Is this true?
21. How can I respond to a non-Catholic Christian who challenges my Catholic Faith and asks for proof in the Bible for a Catholic teaching (like Mary, infant Baptism, Papacy, etc.)?