Questions Covered:

02:58 – The 2nd half of Acts and onwards of the New Testament has Paul written all over it. Protestants and Orthodox have used that to prove that Paul is the leader and not Peter. Even some Church Fathers didn’t behave as if there was a single authority. What is the best way to refute that? 

14:50 – Why is it that the Catholic “Our Father” ends with ‘deliver us from evil and not ‘for yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever’? 

16:50 – How would you respond to the following regarding Peter as Pope? The two Greek words petros and petra are quite distinct, the former being masculine gender, and the latter feminine. The latter denotes a rock or cliff, in situ, firm and immovable. The former denotes a fragment of it, which one traveler may move with his foot in one direction and another may throw in another. This former word petros is the Greek translation kephas, a stone, which was Peter’s name in Aramaic, as was his appellative “Barjona” (John 1:42). See Ap. 94. III. 3 . 

24:50 – Is the sacred Host both the body and blood of Christ? Some religions use both a bread and some grape juice while we only receive the bread. Thanks. 

31:35 – We recently had a marriage between our Catholic prime minister who has married twice outside the church, just married inside the Church to another Catholic. What would you say to my fellow parishioner who unlike Boris, did their first marriage correctly and it all went wrong and can no longer marry? It feels to them like she has followed the rules and been punished but Boris has ignored the rules and can be happy ever after. 

40:30 – My question is, what to do when two members of the magisterium teach or affirm opposite things about our faith. 

43:22 – Some of my friends have recently converted to Oneness Pentecostalism. The Trinity is especially tricky, and so I can’t really give them good explanations for fear of blabbing out heresies lmao. And tbh I really don’t understand it. Can you please explain how this doctrine emerged from apostolic times and the ancient heresies that opposed this doctrine? My Oneness Pentecostal friends, who claim that their church is ‘apostolic’, say that the ‘apostolic faith did not believe in the Trinity’ and that the Bible doesn’t mention the word ‘Trinity’ in it. I’ve also been having bouts with agnosticism too so how do we know that the Uncaused Cause is revealed in three persons? And what does the doctrine of the Trinity mean for our souls?  

49:16 – Did Mary die? Or was she taken up to heaven alive after her earthly ministry?? 

52:16 – Should the garden of Eden be taken as a real or metaphorical story and if so, what implications does that have for the fall and original sin?  

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