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A Grade 5 student asks: Why do we celebrate different virtues every month?
This is a really great practice that Catholic schools have, because if we want to be good Christians we have to be virtuous people; that is, we have to practice doing things which help us be the good...
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A Grade 7 student asks: Why do we do all the sitting and standing at Mass?
When we meet someone here in North America, we usually offer them our hand as a sign of the pleasure of meeting them. In Korea, people bow to each other. We sit, we kneel, we stand, we genuflect as a...
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A Grade 8 student asks: Why are we Catholic?
We believe that when Jesus Christ commissioned the Apostles to “go make disciples of all the nations”, and gave the Apostles and the disciples the mission, the Church was formed. We believe that this...
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A Grade 8 student asks: Why is the Catholic Church so big?
Just like the last question explains a little of why we are Catholic, just as our family grows through the generations, so too do the followers of Jesus [who are considered a faith family] grow through...
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A Grade 6 student asks: What do bishops and priests do for fun?
It’s important that our young people know that bishops and priests in so many ways are normal people. I’ll speak for myself first. I like to spend time with my friends who are priests, and my friends...
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A Grade 8 student asks: Why does God allow us to sin?
This is an excellent question, and I point you back to an earlier question and answer, but God doesn’t allow us to sin, but He gives us as a gift – freedom, and with that freedom we can choose to sin...
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A Grade 6 student asks: Why did Mary not sin?
This is a really excellent question, because this is one of those ways we can see a little of how God, the Creator of the Universe, and our personal saviour is. No one took away Mary’s freedom to...
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A Grade 7 student asks: Why did God let His only Son die?
One thing that we have to remember is that like we have “freedom” to choose good or bad, right or wrong, sin or to live by our faith – Jesus had the freedom and God the Father did not take His life...
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A Grade 8 student asks: Did Jesus build the first Church?
This is an excellent question! When we say “Church” there are 2 different meanings or realities here. There is a physical reality that includes the people, you and I, the clergy, religious AND the...
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A Grade 6 student asks: What’s heaven like?
Well, I can’t answer that really any better than you can because like you, I’ve never been there. But like you, I trust God, I believe His Word revealed through His Son, and have faith that He wants...
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A Grade 6 student asks: Where is heaven?
We know heaven is a place because to the repentant thief, Jesus says to us: “Today you will be with me in Paradise”, and that’s heaven. But it’s not a place like your house, or like Great Wolf Lodge...
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A Grade 5 student asks: Why can’t priests get married?
The belief that religious figures should be celibate [not to marry; not to have sexual relations] began long before the birth of Christianity. Ancient Druid priests were thought to have been celibate...
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A Grade 6 student asks: How old are the Catholic prayers?
This is a great question, wanting to know the history of our prayers. The “Our Father…” comes from Jesus’ own teaching, the Hail Mary, from Scripture, the prayers of the Eucharist [Mass] so many of...
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A Grade 7 student says: I have trouble believing God’s really there when I’m...
You’re not alone, my friend. Many people, I would say most people feel exactly the same way that you do. They feel alone, they feel abandoned…in fact, even Jesus struggled with abandon and loneliness...
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A Grade 7 student says: I struggle a lot with getting along with people.
Once again…not alone there either, my young friend! One of the greatest challenges in our lives is to be charitable and to get along with others. Here is my advice: I try to remember this myself,...
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A Grade 8 student asks: How is God without beginning and without end?
This is an amazing philosophical question which reveals your inquisitive mind. It’s hard to explain, because absolutely everything we know of has a beginning and an end, because something else created...
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A Grade 7 student asks: How does God speak to us?
Great question! God speaks to us in so many ways. He speaks to us through creation, that is through the world around us. When we see beauty in the world, and beauty as we take it into ourselves –...
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A Grade 6 student asks: Did we always have the Sacrament of Confession?
This is a great question. In a previous question, I spoke of how we have the Word of Love [the Gospels in which in so many ways Jesus expresses in Word, His love for us] but an important part of our...
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A Grade 8 student asks: What is the ‘burning bush’ all about?
What an excellent question! This is exactly what I mean about never being afraid to ask these questions. In fact, in God’s revelation, fire has always had an important symbolic meaning. The Holy...
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A Grade 7 student asks: What’s hell like?
I’m glad someone asked this question. The concept and ideas we have about hell come from many different places. They come from mythology, from stories and from religion. Just because our ideas come...
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