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Fr. William Rock, FSSP serves as Parochial Vicar at Regina Caeli Parish in Houston, Texas. He was ordained in October of 2019 and serves as a regular contributor to the FSSP North America Missive Blog and the TAN Direction Blog.     In Today's Show:

• I have a religion assignment from school and I should write about a saint. I was wondering if Mother Mary was considered a saint? I see a lot of mixed answers and how she was never officially canonized and that she wasn't actually a saint, but at the same time, I do see many stating that she was a saint.
• Am I permitted to eat chicken on a Friday? I was told the law was relaxed after Vatican II & restricted to Ash Wednesday & Good Friday, or is every Friday a fast?
• Can we sin accidentally?
• I live in rural Nevada. The TLM is nowhere to be found. Does the FSSP plan to come to the West anytime soon?
• If I am not Baptized, are my mortal sins taken away at Baptism? I'm not Baptized right now because I live in China.
• I had a friend who was using a ouija board. I feel that I may have uncharitably corrected this person when telling them that they should not have this in their home. How can I more charitably speak about things like this in the future? Is it a sin to even touch a ouija board? What are the rules on this for Catholics and Christians?
• I am a diocesan seminarian and a member of the Confraternity of Saint Peter. I attended an FSSP mass and noticed the Fraternity's Code of Arms on the Vestments. As a member of the Confraternity myself, would it be appropriate for me to have and wear those types of vestments?
• Can souls in purgatory help themselves?
• Is there really a purgatory? I'm having a hard time believing in it and I'm Catholic.
• Since priests take a vow of celibacy, why does it matter if the priest is gay?
• What is the average stay for a Fraternity priest at a parish? Is the rotation in August?
• What are the nature and limitations of wives submitting to husbands?
• Are any of the sacraments more important than another?
• What is a Breviary and where might I buy one?
• Why do we sign ourselves when the Magnificat, Benedictus, Nunc Dimittis is said during the Liturgy of the Hours?
• How deeply does an average priest study Marian apparitions?
• Why might my priest have seemed offended when I asked him about a specific Marian apparition?

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