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Evaluating the religious tradition which you’ve inherited is part of the process of becoming an adult. At some point, each of us has to make the tradition we’ve been given our own if we are to remain within it. You might be interested to learn that not everything you may know about Catholicism requires the absolute unquestioning assent of your mind. There’s room for questioning and doubt – theologians do it regularly. I teach Confirmation students, and this year when one of the students elected not to become Confirmed for similar reasons, I supported her choice. In addition to speaking with your parents, please make an appointment to see your priest or pastoral minister for help thinking this through. They may be able to help you articulate just what is at the roots of your questioning.

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While the medical profession deals with the physical well-being of patients, this sacrament ministers to their spiritual well-being by addressing the sense of fear and isolation felt by those seriously ill or dying. Christians are always invited to hopeful and faith-filled understanding of suffering, which is seen as an association with the Passion of Christ. The sacrament is intended to be an opportunity for special closeness with God, to remind suffering patients of God’s love and to reinforce one’s faith and hope. One is never required to receive it, though some older Catholics may believe that.

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A number of Christian denominations base their condemnation of masturbation on the story of Onan in Genesis 38. He “spilled his seed,” (presumably by interupting intercourse) and so displeased God that he was slain. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that deliberate masturbation on the part of a male or female, to achieve one’s own sexual pleasure, is a “gravely disordered” action. That is because one’s sexuality is understood to be ordered to proper use only within marriage, for the mutual relationship of spouses and the procreation of children.

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