Martyrdom or Suicide? Resisting Evil! Dimonds in the Rough

In this episode of What Catholics Believe, Fr. Jenkins answers follow-up emails concerning previous shows including: • How does one go about becoming a Catholic if one was raised in the Novus Ordo (specifically the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation)? • Aren‘t martyrs such as the Forty Holy Martyrs of Sebaste committing what is essentially suicide in their martyrdom? • Why is Immaculate Conception Church locked? • The Consecration of Russia. • Baptism of Desire & the Dimond Brothers. • Can a Pope or a Bishop be immoral in his private life? • Are the sacraments of a secret homosexual bishop valid? • Why abortion is so terribly evil. • St. Joseph, the foster-father of Jesus.

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