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During Yom Kippur we recite prayers where we hit our chest as we recite each transgression.

We don’t have recent numbers as to percentage of young men serving a full-time teaching mission. However, in 1991 a survey was done, which found that 32 percent of young men serve two 2-year teaching missions.

When we harm others, we create the potential — when all the causes and conditions come together— to be on the receiving end of harm ourselves in the future.

At the same time, it is also a fact that many—probably the great majority—of Catholic moral theologians disagree and would advise a woman that she may, in good conscience, use an artificial method of birth control to avoid a life-threatening pregnancy.

The vestments serve a spiritual function of helping to bring the faithful into the atmosphere of understanding. Vestments are iconic representations of our Lord and the angels, serving at the one altar of God.

How come sometimes, when Jews pray (like during Yom Kippur services), they pound their chests with their fists?