Jenna Marie Cooper, J.C.L.

Jenna Marie Cooper, who holds a licentiate in canon law, is a consecrated virgin and a canonist whose column appears weekly at OSV News. Send your questions to [email protected]. (Former "Question Corner" author Father Kenneth Doyle died Oct. 28, 2022. Father Doyle wrote the popular Catholic News Service “Question Corner” column for 11 years. May he rest in peace.)

Do we relax our Lenten fasts on Sunday?

March 29, 2023

Weekly Friday sacrifices: You mean they never went away?

March 22, 2023

What are miracles, and why do we need them?

March 15, 2023

Can laypeople ever absolve sins? Chanting in ‘Novus Ordo’

March 8, 2023

Infant communion and wandering minds

March 1, 2023

Must I believe in and follow apparitions?

February 22, 2023

Leaving early and the paschal candle

February 15, 2023

Burning or burying sacramentals? And why use holy water?

February 8, 2023

Differences between Orders and vows; priests and religious saints

February 1, 2023

On Limbo and on silent prayer

January 25, 2023

Holy days of obligation; vegetarians in Lent

January 18, 2023

Why confess to a priest? What if it’s been a long time?

January 11, 2023

‘Question Corner’ author Father Kenneth Doyle dies Oct. 28, 2022

November 16, 2022

Remain a Catholic? – Holy Communion with Alzheimer’s disease?

November 16, 2022

Free to marry? – Scolding from pulpit

November 9, 2022

Clapping at Mass

November 2, 2022

Plush retirement for priests

October 26, 2022

Nutrition, hydration and feeding tubes – Eulogies at Catholic funerals

October 19, 2022

Can prayers clinch heaven? – Priest at non-Catholic wedding

October 12, 2022

Lamp for Blessed Sacrament; The church and climate change

October 5, 2022

Mass for an aborted child

September 28, 2022

Homilies by deacons

September 21, 2022

Crying babies – My daughter and holy Communion

September 14, 2022

How are non-Catholics forgiven?

September 7, 2022

Tradition of lighting candles – Better to go to church or be kind?

August 31, 2022