6/26/24 - Canon Francis Altiere, ICKSP

Canon Francis Altiere, ICKSP serves as Rector of Sts. Cyril and Methodius Oratory in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He was ordained in 2014. In Today's Show

• Can one receive an indulgence from doing the Divine Office, since that is entirely composed of scripture?
• What does Canon think of the outcome of the ICKSP's visit to Pope Francis?
• What is the meaning and purpose of excommunication?
• Do priests need to have permission to have mass, hear confession and celebrate weddings when traveling to a different diocese?
• If Adam was incomplete without Eve, why were they created at different times?
• What is seminary training like for ordinariate priests?
• As someone who is new to the Divine Office, where would you recommend starting? Lauds. Prime, Vespers and Compline? Or maybe some form of the others?
• What happened to the sixth precept of the Church (Not to marry persons within the forbidden degrees of kindred)
• Is the TLM 1962 missal still applying to the TLM mass today
• If God made animals to eat, why do we have pets?

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