Did Aquinas say a baby has no soul until forty days (for a boy) or eighty days (for a girl) after conception, so abortion is okay before those times?
• Is it true that the new universal catechism of the Catholic Church is intended only for clergy and that lay people should not bother to read it because it’s too technical? That’s what our associate pastor said from the pulpit last Sunday. He made it clear he felt lay people should ignore it and let the experts decide if it’s worthwhile or not. • What are the Nag Hammadi writings, and do they reveal anything we don’t already know about Christ or the Bible? • What is gnosticism? • How should I respond to an atheist who denies creation, claims there has been an infinite number of universes before this one, and believes that the universe was made not by God but through the “big bang,” part of the universe’s endless cycle of expansion and contraction? • What is a miracle? Is it a violation of a law of nature? Didn’t people in the past believe in miracles only because they didn’t know much about science? • What is the Catholic Church’s official position on Freemasonry? Are Catholics free t
