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.)

Religious items and later use; Cremation ashes as fertilizer?

August 20, 2021

Friday abstinence for a vegan

August 5, 2021

Getting child baptized; Devotion to St. Expeditus

July 29, 2021

Annulment questions

July 22, 2021

Pray for Satan; Mass vessels and vestments

July 15, 2021

‘Perfume terrorism,’ continued; Religious practice and parents’ concern

July 9, 2021

Words of consecration

July 1, 2021

Jesus on the cross; Gravity of sin

June 24, 2021

Back to sacraments; Perfume and parishes

June 16, 2021

Pope and grand ayatollah; Is feeding tube necessary?

June 10, 2021

Intent to exclude children; Is confession necessary?

June 3, 2021

Crucifixion and need for repentance; Raising children Catholic

May 27, 2021

Site of the Ascension; When to leave Mass?

May 20, 2021

Coming back to church

May 13, 2021

Marriage open to children

May 6, 2021

What if Eucharist is stolen; Still mortal sin to miss Mass?

April 29, 2021

Were the apostles baptized?

April 22, 2021

Donating bodily remains

April 15, 2021

Violent video games

April 8, 2021

Burial in non-Catholic cemetery; Anxious as death draws near

April 1, 2021

Baptism during COVID-19

March 25, 2021

Reason for celibacy; Blessing for non-sacramental marriage

March 18, 2021

Wording of Nicene Creed; Conflicted about cremation

March 11, 2021

Divorce and holy Communion

March 4, 2021

Praying for all the dead; Does Holy Name Society still exist?

February 25, 2021