The Catholic Answer Q&A of the Day

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The Catholic Answer magazine (known to our friends as TCA) is a national bimonthly published by Our Sunday Visitor whose mission is to answer questions about Catholic faith, practice and heritage.

The Catholic Answer is edited by Dr. Matthew Bunson.

Our goal here will be the same, but in an interactive online format with a new topic each weekday. Your questions and comments are welcome, and we’ll answer as many of them as we can.

Our contributors are:

Father Reginald Martin, a Dominican priest, was ordained for the Order of Preachers in 1974. He has served his religious community as pastor, campus ministry director, and Vicar Provincial (assistant to the Dominicans' administrative superiors). He has written for Catholic Parent magazine and Homiletic and Pastoral Review, and served as editor for a number of books by his Dominican confreres, the most recent, "Preaching Justice: Dominican Contributions to Social Ethics in the Twentieth Century."

Father Martin presently directs the ministry of the Rosary Center, in Portland, Ore., which promotes devotion to the Mother of God, and provides rosaries for missionaries and religious leaders in some of the world's more obscure corners. He received undergraduate degrees in English and philosophy, and graduate degrees in theology and business administration. He enjoys travel (and is proud to have visited all the continents), book collecting and naval fiction relating to the Napoleonic Wars. 

Father Ray Ryland, Ph.D., J.D., serves as chaplain for several national Catholic apostolates, an adjunct professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, and an assistant pastor at St. Peter's Church in the same city. He is the author of the "TCA Faith" Q&A column in each issue of The Catholic Answer.

Father Francis Hoffman, J.C.D., serves as Senior Director -- Mission, Programming, Development for Relevant Radio, the Catholic talk radio network. He is the author of the "TCA Life" column in each issue of The Catholic Answer.

Monsignor M. Francis Mannion is a priest and theologian of the Diocese of Salt Lake City. He is the author of the "Answers" column in each issue of OSV Newsweekly.

Send YOUR question to TCAnswers@osv.com for consideration. Queries whose replies require more time or space than we have available here will be considered for a response in TCA.

Questions & answers will appear as they are dated; see the navigation at left.

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