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 CatholicQA@osv.com. (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.)

Renewal of vows for non-Catholics; Rationale regarding women priests

October 28, 2021

Did God ‘require’ sacrifice of Jesus?

October 14, 2021

Women deacons?

October 7, 2021

Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

October 7, 2021

Can ashes be commingled?

September 30, 2021

Dating divorced individuals; Bowing at name of Jesus

September 23, 2021

What about purgatory?; Do priests forget confessions?

September 14, 2021

Divorce and the Eucharist; Long-haired priest

September 8, 2021

Baptism and non-Catholic parents; Forgetting eucharistic fast

September 2, 2021

Saturday funeral Masses; Who can give blessings?

August 26, 2021

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