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This week Catholic Answers apologist Karlo Broussard comes on the program to discuss his book "Meeting the Protestant Challenge" from Catholic Answers Press.  Karlo helps us defend objections using scripture.  We discuss the authority of Peter at the Council of Jerusalem in Acts 15.  The challenge to Papal infallibility, and the sinlessness of Mary.  He gives us a lot if great information.  Check out his new book.  It will be a great tool to add to your Apologetics arsenal.

In Be Brave in the Scared, Catholic writer Mary Lenaburg shares how the overwhelming demands of caring for her severely disabled daughter ultimately taught her—and can teach you—that trusting in God and accepting his will can lead to profound joy, no matter what challenges you face.

Be Brave in the Scared is an uplifting account of human frailty (and stubbornness) surrendered to faith. Lenaburg tells the heart-rending story of how caring for her severely disabled daughter affected her self-image, marriage, family life, and faith.

Although she initially struggled to accept God’s will and her own limitations, Lenaburg ultimately learned how to trust God. She found in that trust inexplicable joy, even during the most difficult days of her life. She writes boldly and authentically about challenges we all encounter, such as trials with control, blame, exhaustion, fear, and acceptance.

Join  Fr. Scott Mansfield, Pastor of St. John Vianney and Will Tapia, Director of Development as they give an in depth review of the Gospel from Second Sunday of Advent: Where is Tony?

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On this week's show, we contemplate the power and potential of words and storytelling with Lindsay Schlegel, the author of Don't Forget to Say Thank You.

About Lindsay Schlegel:

Lindsay Schlegel has always loved stories and storytelling. She counts it among her blessings that she’s the author of Don’t Forget to Say Thank You: And Other Parenting Lessons That Brought Me Closer to God (Ave Maria Press) and the host of the podcast Quote Me with Lindsay Schlegel. As a writer, she contributes to Verily, CatholicMom.com, Ever Eden, and more. She also serves as editor-at-large for Little Lamb Books. She lives in her New Jersey hometown with her high-school-sweetheart-turned-husband and their four children, where she reads, knits, and runs. 

About Don't Forget to Say Thank You:

Lindsay's mission is to encourage, inspire, and lift others up to be all they were created to be. Her book, Don't Forget to Say Thank You, seeks to do this by recognizing and embracing God's fatherly love in the vocation of motherhood. Her podcast, Quote Me, looks to celebrate the power of words to bring all of us closer to the Lord in the midst of everyday life. And her other writing and speaking approach a contemporary Catholic lifestyle with humor, humility, and grace, in an effort to show the beauty of living with Christ as the center of life.

For more information:

 

Website: LindsaySchlegel.com

Social: instagram.com/lindsayschlegs | instagram.com/quoteme_podcast | https://www.facebook.com/LindsaySchlegelAuthor/ | https://twitter.com/LindsaySchlegel

 

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Today's Gospel compels us to go out into the Spiritual Desert in order for us to change for the better.

To read this week's readings, go to: usccb.org

Jimmy Akin, senior apologist at Catholic Answers, selects from weird and wacky questions submitted via the internet and tackles them head on in this episode of “Weird Questions.” If you have a mysterious, fantastic, or otherworldly query, please email it to [email protected].  

Questions Covered:

01:20 - There are certain acts which have an indulgence attached to them.  Let’s say that a woman named Mary is in the habit of a particular prayer at a particular place and time.  One day Mary explains her habit to Martha.  Martha exclaims “Did you know there’s an indulgence attached to that”.  “No, I didn’t”, Mary replies. My weird question is: Does Mary receive those indulgences retroactively with this knowledge and desire?  Or has she been unconsciously receiving them all along?  Or is it the case that only going forward, she will receive the indulgence?

06:30 - My understanding is that during the canonization process the body of the potential saint is exhumed and if their body has not suffered corruption that plays a role in their path towards sainthood. The question has to do with cremation. With the rise in acceptance and practice of cremation for Catholics, how would someone being a future incorruptible interact with the act of cremation? Would the body burn at all? If it would, are we destroying future incorruptibles by practicing cremation?

11:15 - I was wondering if Jimmy could speculate on a presupposed notion on the salvation of Erwin Rommel. Rommel was a Catholic German General during WWII and supposedly involved in the plot to kill Hitler. Because of the nature of the cause he fought for, would his Catholic faith have (assuming he stayed true to its tenants) be sufficient for his salvation?

17:35 - If someone went into a church and removed the consecrated Eucharist from the church.  Would it be a matter of kidnapping or theft?

21:20 - Saint Apollonia leaped into a fire. They would have tossed her in anyway, because she wouldn’t renounce her faith. Where do you draw the line between martyrdom and suicide?

34:30 –  I have heard a theory that alien abductions could be demons pretending to be aliens. This is supported by the fact that in a lot of these cases anti-religious messages are given by the aliens. Could this be possible? I have also been intrigued by the theory that gods worshiped in antiquity (specifically Mayan and Sumerian) may have been demons also. Would this fit the Catholic belief system? How would God allow this if true?

43:25 - Are you familiar with Isaac Asimov’s short story “The Last Question”? How do you understand the final sentence with in the whole of the story? And what was the message Isaac was trying to convey?

50:10 - I’ve been trying to read about the theological implications of finding out that aliens exist. How might we determine if any aliens we had met were fallen, once we knew they had souls?

Tim explains the true life of St. Nicholas on his feast day, including his work combating heresies.