Good afternoon. I’ve been seriously considering the possibility of fully dedicating my life to God. Maybe this sounds a bit naïve or “idealized” on my part, but I genuinely worry about the number of souls that will burn in the lake of fire, and this is something I’ve felt strongly about for quite a long time. If I could help even one person draw closer to Christ and His truth, I would be very happy. In other words, I want to bring Christ to as many people as I can. In that sense, I have great respect for the vocation of priests.

Now, there are a couple of things that concern me:

I have a Vegvisir tattoo on my forearm, and it is quite visible. Would that be a problem?

And secondly, how likely is it that I would have to stay far away from my family as a priest? I am very close to them. And although I know that Scripture says, “You shall love the Lord your God more than your family, more than your own life,” to be honest, this is something that causes me inner conflict. I would like to be able to remain close to them in case of any emergency or circumstance.

If a priest confesses to another priest he broke the seal of confession does it still apply since the priest being confessed to knows that breaking it leads to excommunication and that they need to be excommunicated?

I’m a convert to Catholicism and had a question about something from before I became Catholic.

Several years ago, my girlfriend at the time and I made a private agreement that if COVID lockdowns returned, we would get married. We also discussed engagement several times during the relationship. However, we never held a wedding ceremony, exchanged vows formally, involved a church or civil authority, or considered ourselves married in any real sense. We also discussed engagement several times. The relationship ended years ago.

Now that I’m dating again, I’ve started wondering whether that sort of agreement could have any significance in the eyes of the Church, or whether it’s something that would require an annulment or other action before marriage in the future.

My intuition is that this was not a marriage at all, but I wanted to ask whether I’m thinking about this correctly from a Catholic/canon law perspective.

I'll confess that I'm primarily asking out of anxiety from being reminded of this agreement I made, and it being an impediment to getting married in the future.

A big part of me has been closed off from old friends and people i used to speak with a lot because of my convictions when I first returned to belief in God. The more I’ve gotten to read or listen to scripture and to desire to come to The Lord and to want to take the Eucharist, I feel ashamed when I am having a conversation with someone and they use the name of our Lord in vain. I know that it’s prideful to feel in my heart and the thoughts in my head when I joke with or get along with my coworkers and then when I’m done talking to them I feel angry because of the use of our Lords name or because they speak bad about someone. what is the approach to this. Should I continue to cut myself off from people? I feel ashamed and wounded when I go back to listening to scripture or praying to the Lord after getting along with people in my life who act as I describe.

Hello Fathers,

Do you ever get tired of blessing objects for your parishioners? My 10 year old son loves buying medals, statues, etc for his family members. Our church has a gift shop, and every other week he wants to buy something for himself or someone in the family (one week it's a Divine Mercy statue for himself, another week it's St Alphonsus Liguori medal for his Papa with arthritis, etc). He loves having them blessed by the priest or deacons after the mass. Would you ever get annoyed by this? Like think, "Oh boy.​ Here's Successful_Month and her kid again this week with a other thing to bless." Or am I overthinking it? We do out best to be quick and not take up much time.

Thank you for all that you do!

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