#12507 Why is This Bishop Banning Altar Rails? - Tom Nash

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“Why Did the Charlotte Diocese Bishop Banning Altar Rails?” This question opens a discussion on the various practices surrounding Communion, including the history of receiving in the hand versus kneeling and the implications of obedience to bishops. Other topics include the fate of those who died before the Resurrection and the Church’s view on civil marriages.

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Questions Covered:

01:44 – What’s the history of receiving in the hand vs, kneeling, and why would a bishop want to promote one over the other? How Are We Allowed to receive communion? Is Obedience Owed to the bishop here?
13:28 – Did anyone who died before the Resurrection go to Purgatory?
15:55 – What does the Church think of marriages that are just done civilly? What does an invalid marriage mean?
20:49 – In the reading of the Genealogy of Christ, why are there only two women mentioned?
23:30 – Why do Catholics worship Mary and the saints by praying to them?
32:55 – If someone is married by the Church and divorced civilly, are they in perpetual sin until one of them dies?
37:30 – What is the US Bishops stance on receiving the Eucharist through intinction?
43:05 – I was baptized Catholic but not raised Catholic after that. My parents are atheist. But I’d like to learn about being a practicing Catholic because I am drawn toward it.
49:40 – How long are you supposed to pray for a loved one in Purgatory?
52:39 – What happens to the victims of people victimized in a satanic dark mass? Do they go to hell?

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1:26.6	I am mixed. I have a serious question I want to start Welcome. Hey, good to be with you, Sai. How are you? I am mixed.
1:28.3	I have a serious question I want to start with. I'm going to let people dial up the phones and then we'll get their call screen 8883187884, but I was reading the pillar. Yes, sir. And I don't know if this article came out today or yesterday. I'm not sure. Yesterday. Yesterday on the paper. Oh, You even know which article I'm referring to.
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1:46.9	Here's the headline Charlotte
1:48.5	Bishop bands altar rails kneelers for communion receiving Holy Communion is to be done as the
1:55.8	members of the faithful go in procession I this Bishop is far more educated than I am, but still I feel sad because
2:04.4	I love the altar rail. And maybe that's just a leftover of my childhood. I don't know. I'm not in any
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