Just gone through the sacrament of marriage in the US and one thing that I learned here is that they expect the parishes where my wife and I were baptized at to have record of all our sacraments; and that if we had done communion and confirmation in different parishes they would have let our baptismal parishes known. Even every Google search that I make regarding this (mostly from US and Europe) mention the same thing, and for a marriage or confirmation to go under the radar of the parish of baptism is an exceptional event. For example... this stackexchange post: https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/77701/how-does-the-catholic-church-handle-documents-worldwide-nowadays Well, my wife and I were both baptized and confirmed in the Philippines. With the pretext presented by the parish here in the US (as well as my Google searches), I had my aunt help us get annotated baptismal certificates from our parishes in our home country. As it turns out, the baptismal parishes do NOT have any record of our confirmation because they were not done in the same parish -- and my aunt had to go to the parishes where we had our confirmation just go get certificates for those. So my question is... if record keeping of sacraments between parishes is supposedly part of canon law (as per my Google searches as well), why doesn't it seem to be a universal thing? It was a roller coaster ride finding these out during marriage prep, and had we not allotted enough time for it then it would've caused significant delays. We even had to explain this to the parishes here in the US that we got married in and where we did our prep (our home parish where we needed permission from) and both priests were quite surprised. This also brings up the question: will the parish here in the US be able to notify our baptismal parishes back in the Philippines that we are married? Will they care if they haven't been recording our communion and confirmation anyway?

**Is there a catholic program or site for people to find therapist who are catholic priest?** I’ve heard of some Dioceses having counselors but what if someone would like to see a Priest specifically so as to get both a religious, spiritual approach and a medical scientific approach? Thank you for your time

Our diocese recently had a big re-org and went down from over 100 parishes down to 30. But now our cozy little ex-congregation can't do anything fun unless the big mega-church ladies say so or we beg our pastor. Given the principle of subsidiarity, are there any lay-structures that exist, or have existed in the past, to allow some level of self-governance in parish life? We'd like to be able to organize our own men's and women's slightly-larger-than small groups, youth activities, dances, novenas, non-Eucharistic processions (like the seven-churches visitation) I think there would still be a point person who would go to the priest for approval, where necessary, but we could avoid the hassle of being vetoed by church ladies and the stress of being lone wolves trying to organize things in vacuums.

Pending Vatican approval, my diocese is moving the Cathedral to a neighboring parish. The Cathedral Parish was St. Raphael, the new Parish is St. Bernards. Now, nothing against St. Bernard, but he's not exactly an archangel. So what I'm wondering is, is it the norm to rename the parish a Cathedral moves to (in this case, rename St. Bernard's parish St. Raphael's parish) or is it normal to leave St. Bernard alone and re-dedicate the diocese? Also, since this is the only church in the parish, would it also be normal to rename the church building itself?

I’m Catholic, and have been since birth. I attend parish of St. Francis in Bakersfield, California. I have noticed recently, that all Catholic Churches, for the most part are named after a Saint, i.e. Saint Francis, Saint Phillip, Saint Anne, Saint Stephen etc. I’ve always wondered, how to they pick which Saint? Is their a list of names to choose from or are they just chosen at random?

We're undergoing a big flip in the diocese of Madison and almost all the that were churches canonical parishes before are becoming part of a bigger grouping of churches within an expanded parish boundary. There's lots of hubbub about what we're going to name the new parish, but I don't know that anybody in the parish itself has much of a say over such things. Are they decided by committee, from above, by popular opinion, by tradition (do we just keep the name of the central parish church) or what?